MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — The Manatee County Sheriff's Office is leading the death investigation after the discovery of a body believed to belong to missing 18-year-old Giovanni Pelletier.

Multiple law enforcement agencies were involved in an intensive search for the boy after he disappeared on August 1 while visiting family. On Friday, a family member discovered the body partially submerged in a retention pond near I-75 and State Road 70.

Pelletier was with his cousins the night he disappeared near the area where the body was found. The cousins later told Charlotte County deputies that he walked off after acting "erratically" during their road trip from Englewood to Mims in Brevard County.

The Medical Examiner's Office conducted an autopsy over the weekend, but due to the advanced

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