Autopsy: Man found dead in drainage pipe drowned

WESTMINSTER, Md. (AP) — Maryland State Police say a man who was found dead in a drainage pipe in Westminster drowned.

Spokesman Greg Shipley tells The Carroll County Times (http://bit.ly/1ySQM7c) that an autopsy showed that 54-year-old Robert L. Hawk of Sykesville suffered from acute alcohol intoxication when he died.

Hawk’s body was found July 3 in a storm drain by a business owner mowing his lawn.

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Information from: Carroll County Times of Westminster, Md., http://www.carrollcounty.com/

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