CAPITOLA- Emergency crews pulled a man's body from the swollen Soquel Creek around 11 a.m. Friday, said Marquis Booth, a detective with the Capitola Police Department.

A resident went to look at the creek where it runs behind the Nob Hill grocery store in Bay Avenue and spotted a submerged body. The citizen called 911 just after 10:30 a.m. and crews were dispatched to the scene.

Officers arrived and found a middle-aged white man, wearing dark clothes, dead in the water.

The cause of death is still being investigated, Booth said, and police did not yet know how long the man had been dead.

Officers are working to identify the man.