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Neighbors find ‘human head’ in Arroyo Grande yard — or so they thought

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San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s deputies were called out to a rural Arroyo Grande home Thursday afternoon for what could have been a hair-raising scene — instead, they found a head-scratching (yet harmless) mystery.

SLO County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Tony Cipolla said detectives and the Coroner’s Unit were called out to a home on Quarter Horse Lane around 4:30 p.m. after neighbors reported “something suspicious in a backyard.”

According to Cipolla, neighbors said they found a “partially buried human head.”

After a thorough investigation, Cipolla said the head was “eventually determined to not be real.”

“It was a fake human head,” he said.

Cipolla said the office does not know why the fake head was in the yard.

No further details on its source or where the investigation might be headed next were available.

Kaytlyn Leslie
The Tribune
Kaytlyn Leslie writes about business and development for The San Luis Obispo Tribune. Hailing from Nipomo, she also covers city governments and happenings in San Luis Obispo. She joined The Tribune in 2013 after graduating from Cal Poly with her journalism degree.
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