{"id":191253,"date":"2026-02-24T09:48:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/191253\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T09:48:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:48:27","slug":"body-of-tracy-man-believed-kidnapped-found-at-lake-berryessa-sheriff-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/191253\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of Tracy man believed kidnapped found at Lake Berryessa, sheriff says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say the body of a man who was apparently abducted in Tracy last week was found at Lake Berryessa. <\/p>\n<p>Avtar Singh, 57, was reported missing on Feb. 17, the San Joaquin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says, from the Sikh temple in Tracy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video reviewed by detectives showed Singh being put into a white SUV, apparently against his will, by three unidentified people earlier that day.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office says detectives believe Singh wasn&#8217;t the original target of the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were looking for another subject, it appears, and when he did not give them the answers they were looking for, apparently that&#8217;s why they grabbed him for some reason and took him instead,&#8221; San Joaquin Sheriff Patrick Withrow said.<\/p>\n<p>Then, on Feb. 20, the Napa County Sheriff&#8217;s Office alerted that a body had been found near Lake Berryessa matching the description of Singh. <\/p>\n<p>The San Joaquin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office has since confirmed that the body was indeed that of Singh&#8217;s. <\/p>\n<p>No cause of death has been released by authorities at this time, but detectives noted that the incident appeared to be isolated and there was no threat to the public. <\/p>\n<p>Detectives have not made any arrests in connection with Singh&#8217;s death.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Singh leaves behind a wife and triplets under the age of one, the sheriff&#8217;s office says.<\/p>\n<p>Deep Singh, a spokesman for the Sikh temple, says Avtar Singh was there with his 1-year-old triplets at the time he was taken. When his wife showed up that evening, the babies were alone but unharmed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was such a nice, humble, honest person, hardworking, punctual, plus he was a very good cook,&#8221; Deep Signh said.<\/p>\n<p>Deep Singh said Avtar Singh and his wife got married around 17 years ago, and the temple threw a big celebration for them when they found out they were expecting the triplets.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities say the body of a man who was apparently abducted in Tracy last week was found at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3938,121,123,122,13722,20531],"class_list":{"0":"post-191253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-napa-county","9":"tag-sacramento","10":"tag-sacramento-headlines","11":"tag-sacramento-news","12":"tag-san-joaquin-county","13":"tag-tracy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}