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The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office is releasing the identity of the Carpinteria resident whose body was found in the Carpinteria Salt Marsh on October 4, 2014.  The decedent is 63-year-old Michael George Ornelas.  Following a criminal and a coroner’s investigation, the Sheriff’s Office has determined that Ornelas died from an apparent suicide.  The official cause and manner of death is pending toxicology results.