Body found believed to be missing student Nicholas Garza | burlingtonfreepress.com | The Burlington Free Press

Body found believed to be missing student Nicholas Garza burlingtonfreepress.com The Burlington Free Press: “Police tentatively identified a body pulled from the Otter Creek on Tuesday night as that of missing Middlebury College student Nicholas Garza.

Search-and-rescue teams from state and local police agencies pulled a male body from a logjam at the base of the downtown spillway about 8:40 p.m last night. A wallet found on the body belonged to Garza, a 19-year-old freshman from Albuquerque, N.M., who went missing Feb. 5, said Tom Scanlon, a public information officer for the Middlebury Police Department.

” ‘It’s not good news, but it’s closure for the family,’ Scanlon said.

” ‘It was Nick,’ the student’s mother, Natalie Garza, told The Associated Press.”