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ORLANDO, Fla. – The FBI and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement person joined a hunt that spans 3 counties for a missing assemblage pupil who disappeared a week ago. Miya Marcano vanished connected the aforesaid time a attraction antheral improperly utilized a maestro cardinal to participate her apartment, authorities said.

Orange County Sheriff John Mina 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.

“At this clip we don’t judge determination was different idiosyncratic involved,” Mina said Thursday.

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

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More than 60 detectives are moving exclusively connected the case, the sheriff said, and a full of astir 176 unit crossed Orange, Seminole and Volusa counties are assisting the search, which includes trained dogs from aggregate agencies, helicopters, dive teams and integer methods. Detectives person conducted astir 30 searches, helium added.

Marcano, a 19-year-old Valencia College student, was past seen conscionable earlier 5 p.m. past Friday; her household reported her missing aft she missed a formation location to South Florida that evening.

“I cognize that Miya’s household and her loved ones are going done unimaginable anguish arsenic they effort and find retired what happened to Miya,” said the sheriff, who encouraged radical crossed cardinal Florida to study thing that they consciousness could beryllium relevant.

“We invited the household and friends and anyone other who wants to assistance out, arsenic well,” Mina said.

The institution that owns the Arden Villas flat analyzable said each imaginable employees acquisition transgression inheritance checks, and nary records of burglary oregon intersexual battle appeared for Caballero.

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A Florida Department of Law Enforcement transgression past for Caballero shows 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, the Orlando Sentinel reported.

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.

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