DEATH INVESTIGATION UNDERWAY IN CARROLL COUNTY

(HAMPSTEAD, MD) -- Maryland State Police and Carroll County Sheriff's Office deputies are investigating the death of a man whose body was found along a wooded area beside a rural field in northern Carroll County this morning.

The man is described at this time only as an adult male. A positive identification has not been made.

At about 8:00 a.m. today, Carroll County Sheriff's Office deputies were dispatched to the 3200-block of Falls Road, Hampstead, Md., for the report of a found body. When deputies arrived, it was confirmed the man was deceased. He was lying along the border of a wooded area that was next to a grain field in a rural area, not far off of Falls Road. The body was near a gated access road that leads to a cell phone tower situated within sight of where the body was found.

The preliminary investigation indicates that members of a crew working on the cell tower were walking the wood line this morning and discovered the body. A search of the area was conducted by crime scene technicians from the State Police and Sheriff's Office, but no weapons were found. Investigators observed no obvious signs of trauma on the body.

The body has been transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore for an autopsy. Investigators will await autopsy results to confirm a positive identity and a cause and manner of death.

The investigation is continuing.