KENDALL, Fla. -- After searching a South Florida cemetery, excavation crews found the remains of a man whose body was recently discovered to be missing from his gravesite.

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A judge ordered workers at Dade South Memorial Park to find the body of Miguel Toledo.

After nearly a five-hour disinterment and grave inspection, cemetery officials positively identified Toledo's remains, which were buried two plots away from where they should have been

Toledo died in 1990 and was supposed to be buried in a double-depth grave reserved for him and his wife.

Toledo's wife, Ondina, died in November. When workers were burying her body, they realized that Toledo's casket was not in the gravesite.

A spokeswoman for the cemetery said Toledo was likely buried in another plot nearby and the mix-up was human error.

The Toledo family was not at the cemetery on Wednesday.

"It was just too difficult," family attorney Stewart Greenberg said. "They made a decision that because there was a funeral director here, I'm here, we have an investigator here, they'd rather not be here to see this. If the remains are Mr. Toledo's, when he is reentered, they would be there at the reburial."

Greenberg said the Toledo family plans to bury their loved ones in another cemetery.

''We want them to be laid to rest somewhere that is a little more careful and cautious than here,'' said Stewart Greenberg, the family's attorney.

Toledo's prayer booklet, found inside the vault, helped to identify his remains.