NAPLES, Fla. (WFLA) — Authorities in Florida are investigating after a doctor who was accused of drugging and raping his patients was found dead in a ditch.
An incident report from the Collier County Sheriff’s Office stated a deputy was dispatched at 6:17 p.m. Monday in Naples to conduct a welfare verify on Dr. Eric Salata, 54.
Salata made headlines last week after he was accused of giving two patients at his beauty surgical procedure clinic laughing fuel, medicine and alcohol, then raping them.
The responding deputy stated an unidentified particular person instructed him Salata left two notes, his wedding ceremony ring and his bank cards at his dwelling. The contents of the notes had been redacted in the report.
The particular person additionally instructed the corporate that managed Salata’s ankle monitor of the state of affairs. An worker on the firm contacted the Collier County Sheriff’s Office and stated Salata’s monitor confirmed him parking at his dwelling at 10 a.m. and strolling towards Gail Boulevard.
According to the incident report, Salata’s ankle monitor didn’t report any additional motion.
The deputy stated when he searched the doctor’s final identified location, he noticed a boot protruding of a wooded space close by. The deputy then found Salata’s physique in a ditch with a gunshot wound to the pinnacle. The doctor confirmed no signal of decay and “appeared to be freshly deceased,” the report stated.
A pistol was additionally found subsequent to Salata’s proper leg, in accordance with the report.
A spokeswoman for the Collier County Sheriff’s Office stated the doctor’s loss of life didn’t seem suspicious, however his trigger and method of loss of life will probably be formally decided by a health worker.
According to NewsRadio WFLA, Salata was accused of sexually assaulting two ladies after incapacitating them with laughing fuel, medicine and tequila at Pura Vida Medical Spa, a beauty surgical procedure clinic he operated along with his spouse.
Salata was charged with two counts of sexual battery to a bodily helpless individual and was scheduled to seem in court docket on Dec. 19.