SWAN CREEK TWP, MI – A St. Charles man and World War II veteran was recently found dead in a ditch in Swan Creek Township.

About noon on Sunday, March 24, Saginaw County Sheriff’s deputies responded to Faber’s Greenhouse, 7010 S. Graham Road. The owner had called to report a truck that was regularly parked there by an elderly man, but the driver was nowhere around, said Undersheriff Mike Gomez.

Deputies searched the area but did find the truck’s owner, 91-year-old Robert L. Mendicki. A Michigan State Police K9 Unit responded to the scene and began tracking Mendicki, eventually locating his body in a water-filled ditch, Gomez said.

Autopsy results indicated Mendicki died…