COCHISE COUNTY, Ariz. — The Cochise County Sheriff's Office is attempting to find the relatives of a deceased person after a resident found their cremated remains on a walking trail.
The box of cremains was discovered on the afternoon of Jan. 24 near milepost 7 of Charleston Road, which extends from Sierra Vista to Tombstone.
According to a label on the box, the cremains belong to an individual named Ann Kringle, who died in November 2012 and was cremated at a facility in Murrieta, Calif.
It is not clear how the box ended up in a rural part of southern Arizona.
CCSO is trying to find surviving relatives of the deceased person. Anyone with information can call the sheriff's office at 520-432-9500.
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