Crime Stoppers tip leads officers to body behind Miami Gardens home

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Miami Gardens police crime scene investigators were combing through a bushy area near a retention pond Wednesday afternoon after finding a man’s body behind a house earlier that morning.

Sky 10 flew over the scene, located near Northwest 205th Street and 29th Avenue, just northwest of Hard Rock Stadium, at around 1:30 p.m.

Diana Delgado-Gourgue, a spokesperson for the Miami Gardens Police Department, said officers discovered the man’s body just before 10:45 a.m. after receiving an anonymous tip through Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers.

She said police have not identified the man, whom she described as Black.

Police, who said detectives were continuing their investigation Wednesday afternoon, didn’t say whether they suspected any foul play.