BODY ID'D AS LONER, AGE 65 CIRCUMSTANCES NOT SUSPICIOUS.

Byline: KAREN MAESHIRO Staff Writer

LANCASTER -- Skeletal remains found in the desert in east Lancaster have been identified as belonging to a 65-year-old man who may have been trying to walk to his daughter's house.

How Arthur Urbina Limon died hasn't been determined, but he doesn't appear to have been a victim of foul play, a detective said.

``There are no suspicious circumstances,'' homicide Sgt. Jeff Cochran said. ``It's possible he was trying to make his way to his daughter's house. Her house is 10 miles away in the same direction he was heading. He was on foot in the desert.''

Limon's mummified and partly skeletal remains were found June 18 by a motorcycle rider in the 9700 block of East Avenue F-8. Limon was last seen alive around the second week in February.

Investigators found a senior citizen identification card in his pocket and confirmed his identity, county coroner's officials said.

Coroner's personnel will conduct further medical tests to try to determine the cause of death, Cochran said.

Limon was reportedly a loner after his wife died several years ago, and had a history of drug abuse, coroner's officials said.

``By all accounts he was probably a transient,'' Cochran said.

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