Tattooed corpse found naked by Santa Ana River

Surfers discovered the body of a dead man Saturday morning at the Santa Ana River jetties, Sgt. Dan Dwyer of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department said.

The body, which had yet to be identified Saturday evening, was unclothed and tattooed, according to Dwyer. He estimated that the man was in his 30s and had been dead for a while, but couldn’t speculate on the cause of death.

“There were no signs of injury or trauma, for now,” he said.

The body was seen at about 10:40 a.m. on a sandbar under a bridge that connects Newport Beach to Huntington Beach.

Leslie Meader, a deputy coroner at the Orange County Coroner’s Office, said an autopsy was pending.

— Michael Miller