POLK CITY – The Polk County Sheriff’s Office found a Zephyrhills man’s body inside his car in a pond on Thursday.
The agency said 39-year-old Jose Mercado’s family members called law enforcement about 1 p.m. on Thursday and reported him missing. The family reported that Mercado left a residence to head home around 1 p.m. Wednesday and never arrived.
After one of his relatives checked the location of his phone, the Sheriff’s Office said the relative went to the location shown near Moore Road and Deen Still Road and found evidence of a crash then contacted the Sheriff’s Office.