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UPDATE: Body found in Monroe County

Police activity near Stroudsburg closed one lane of Interstate 80 eastbound on Friday.
Credit: WNEP

STROUD TOWNSHIP, PA — Police are investigating after a body was found Friday morning in Monroe County.

Stroud Area Regional Police officers identified the body as 26-year-old Anthony Counterman of Greenville, North Carolina. Officials say Counterman is originally from Stroudsburg.

Police say Counterman's body was found by a fisherman in a remote, wooded area off Tanite Road.

Local and state police, including water search and recovery crews, responded to the area of Pocono Creek for a body found in the water just after 9 a.m. Friday.

The investigation closed a lane on Interstate 80 east near Stroudsburg for more than an hour, as emergency crews had to go down the interstate embankment to recover the body.

An autopsy is scheduled for Monday.

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