Manatee County detectives are trying to determine what happened to a missing 18-year-old who was found dead in a Bradenton pond on Friday.
While searching near a retention pond at the southbound off-ramp of Interstate 75 and State Road 70 in Bradenton, a family memberof the missing man spotted what appeared to be a body partially submerged around 3:15 p.m. Friday and called deputies, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office.
Detectives announced Saturday that they had preliminarily identified the remains as Giovanni Pelletier, an 18-year-old from North Carolina who went missing while vacationing with his family in Englewood, Florida. He was last reported seen near the same I-75 interchange earlier this month, according to detectives…