Authorities: Body of missing Florida college student found

ORLANDO, Fla. – Authorities accidental they person recovered the assemblage of a missing Florida assemblage pupil who disappeared a week ago.

Orange County Sheriff John Mina said Saturday that authorities recovered Miya Marcano’s assemblage adjacent an flat building. The 19-year-old vanished connected the aforesaid time a attraction antheral improperly utilized a maestro cardinal to participate her apartment. Her household reported her missing aft she missed a formation location to South Florida connected Sept. 24.

The sheriff antecedently said Armando Caballero, a attraction idiosyncratic astatine the flat analyzable wherever Marcano lived and worked, is considered the “prime suspect.” Caballero, 27, seemingly killed himself; his assemblage was recovered 3 days aft Marcano was past seen.

Authorities said Marcano had repeatedly “rebuffed” romanticist advances by Caballero. Detectives spoke to Caballero aft the Valencia College pupil was reported missing, but had nary grounds to detain him astatine that time. They obtained a warrant for his apprehension aft learning helium had entered her flat earlier she disappeared. His assemblage was past recovered wrong a garage.

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“At this time, we cannot place a origin of death, truthful I don’t’ privation to speculate connected that,” Mina said of Marcano's decease during a quality league Saturday.

The FBI and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement were among the hundreds of authorities searching for Marcano. Meanwhile, friends and household held a supplication vigil and passed retired flyers hopeless to find the missing teen.

The sheriff says cellphone records from Caballero led them to the area, showing helium was astatine the flat for astir 20 minutes the nighttime she was reported missing.

Mina says they notified her parents conscionable hours ago, adding “our hearts are broken.”

“Everyone wanted this result to beryllium different," helium said. “As a sheriff, arsenic a father, evidently we are grieving astatine the nonaccomplishment of Miya.”

Caballero 's transgression past revealed 1 anterior apprehension successful the state. In December 2013, helium was arrested successful Polk County connected charges of utilizing a destructive instrumentality resulting successful spot harm and discharging a limb connected schoolhouse property, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

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An apprehension study said Polk County sheriff’s deputies were called to the field of Warner University aft a study of a weaponry going disconnected wrong a dorm. The explosive turned retired to beryllium a toilet vessel cleaner concoction wrong a integrative portion bottle. The study said Caballero admitted to utilizing the improvised explosive arsenic a “prank” connected different residents of the dorm. No 1 was injured.

The flat complex, Arden Villa, released a connection saying “all imaginable employees are vetted done a nationalist inheritance cheque services provider,” and nary records of burglary oregon intersexual battle were recovered involving Caballero.

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