Man Who Found Remains Called 3 Times

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- There are new concerns surrounding the meter reader who found a child's remains believed to be Caylee Anthony.
The Orange County Sheriff's Office said Thursday that the meter reader had been to the scene before and had called police about the area in August .

Investigators interviewed the meter reader at length about what he knows, but he is not considered a suspect in any way.
"He is not a suspect in this case," Captain Angelo Nieves said early Thursday evening. "He is a credible witness and we consider him so at the Orange County Sheriff's Office."
Steve Triggs, Director of Communications for Orange County, said the meter reader had been a county employee for a “relatively short time” and would appear at a news conference with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office Friday afternoon. Triggs said he is being represented by outside counsel at the County’s expense.
The sheriff's office said the meter reader had called in tips about the exact same area to Crimeline and the sheriff's office three times in August, two weeks before Tropical Storm Fay hit and flooded much of Central Florida, including the area where the remains were found last week.
The sheriff's office said it is focusing on its own deputies who came out on August 11 and 13 to inspect the scene. It's unknown what the area looked like on August 11, the first day the meter reader called and reported seeing a gray bag.
Sheriff’s officials said the man called Crimeline on August 12th. A detective checked records and determined the area already had been checked by a cadaver dog.
The sheriff's office is also investigating deputies who came out and cleared the scene on the 13th of August. The meter reader accompanied the deputies but nothing was found.
Officials aren't releasing the names of any of the deputies involved, but they are under administrative investigation.
Nieves said the meter reader went back last week because he had a nagging feeling that it was the place to look.
"He called on the 11th, the 12th and the 13th," Nieves said. "Currently, we are following up on that sequence."
WFTV legal analyst William Sheaffer said the developments would appear to benefit Casey Anthony’s defense attorneys.
“The defense has to regard this information as a godsend,” said Sheaffer. “The defense is ultimately going to make a lot of the fact the remains were discovered after numerous trips from the meter reader… This is probably a game-changer.” more