Body found, may be missing man

In a busy weekend for police, a body was found in the Mokelumne River on Sunday near Highway 99 and several individuals face charges for gun violations, drug manufacturing and breaking the glass of a Lodi Jail cell.

A man’s body was found Sunday morning on the north shore of the Mokelumne River, across from the 100 block of Mokelumne River Drive, between Highway 99 and the Union Pacific Railroad trestle.

The victim has not yet been identified, according to the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office.

However, several crews from local fire departments as well as sheriff’s deputies were called out to search the waters late Wednesday evening after a report that a 52-year-old transient, Bruce Baswell, had gone into the water.

Witnesses told deputies at the time that Baswell is unable to walk unassisted. Searches by boat and air proved unsuccessful.

Further searches by sheriff’s deputies later in the week were also unsuccessful.

It is not yet known if that incident is related. The identity of the victim will have to be verified by the coroner’s office following an investigation and pending notification of next of kin.

Within the city of Lodi, Lodi police also investigated several other incidents.

Lodi Police Department special enforcement team detectives responded to several tips from the community about drugs in a residential neighborhood. SET officers conducted a probation search on Friday at around 8 p.m. at a residence in the 1900 block of Yorktown Drive, where they discovered that the resident, 30-year-old Albert Tunsen, was manufacturing Butane Honey Oil (BHO) and had a loaded rifle in his room, according to the Lodi Police Department.

Tunsen was arrested without incident and booked into the Lodi Police Department jail on suspicion of drug manufacturing and weapon offenses, police said.