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Officials are identifying a body found in Port Allen on Monday afternoon as the remains of a missing man from Texas.
The body, discovered on a pipeline access road off Lobdell Highway, was in an advanced state of decomposition. Investigators couldn't tell whether it was a man or woman.
The state crime lab and the parish coroner's office used fingerprints to identify the body as Xavier Drake.
Houston police say Drake was reported missing after last being seen on July 25. His cause of death hasn't yet been determined.
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