Authorities are investigating the discovery of a mans body in the Stanislaus River behind the Spring Creek Country Club on Tuesday afternoon.
Ripon police and fire personnel responded to the 1 p.m. dispatch, said police Lt. Steve Merchant. When they arrived, they found and recovered a body theyve so far identified only as being male.
Steve Hupe, general manager of the golf club, said staff got a call from a golfer on the fourth tee who saw what he believed to be a body stuck in the branches in the river. He said the recovery team pulled the body out of the river and onto a pontoon boat. The man was Caucasian, clothed, and appeared to have been in the water for some time, Hupe said.
