At approximately 3:40 a.m. on May 30, 2022, Tarpon Springs Police Patrol units were dispatched to the 1000 block of Pinellas Avenue in reference to a witness reporting that a male subject was in the water calling for help. On arrival the subject could not be located, but a bicycle and a cell phone were found.
The cell phone was linked to 27 year-old Robert Fiscus. Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office Aviation Unit were called to the scene, but the subject could not be found. Members of the Tarpon Springs Fire Department andnPolice Department searched the water by boat and along the shore by foot for the subject, but he was not located.
Fiscus was entered into a database as Missing and Endangered.
On Tuesday, at approximately 2:29 p.m., officers from the Tarpon Springs Police Department were notified of a body floating in Salt Lake, near the area of Riverside Ridge Rd. The body was recovered and turned over to the Pinellas County Medical Examiner’s Office.
The body has been positively identified as Robert Fiscus’s next of kin has also been notified.
No further information is being released at this time, detectives are continuing their investigation.