Human remains found on jobsite

Published 10:12 pm Thursday, June 9, 2016

Forensics investigators are working to determine the nature of a set of human remains found Wednesday at a construction site in the 3700 block of Willow Glenn Circle.

Dispatchers received a call at 1:09 p.m. Wednesday advising them that bones had been found by contractors working on a new development off Bennett’s Creek Park Road, according to Suffolk spokesperson Diana Klink.

Klink stated in a press release on Thursday that the bones have been identified as human remains. Forensics investigators are “on the scene conducting the excavation and investigation,” she stated.

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According to Klink, police have not yet determined the age of the remains or whether the area could be part of an old burial ground.