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Law enforcement officials said a body believed to be that of missing Florida college student Miya Marcano was spotted Saturday outside an apartment complex in Orange County.
At a press conference, Sheriff John Mina stated, “Obviously, this is not the update I wanted to give to everyone today, Our hearts are broken. Everyone wanted this outcome should be surely different.”
Marcano was last time seen on September 24 at her condominium in Orlando’s Arden Villas complex, roughly a mile away from the University of Central Florida.
The 19-year-old Valencia College student worked in the complex’s leasing office and was meant to fly home to Fort Lauderdale that day, but she didn’t show up.
A body believed to be Miya Marcano has been discovered. OCSO Dectectives have notified Miya’s parents of this tragic news. Sheriff John Mina and the men and women of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office extend our deepest condolences to Miya’s family, friends and loved ones. pic.twitter.com/7Xu8wCoz3a
— Orange County Sheriff’s Office (@OrangeCoSheriff) October 2, 2021
Mina stated that deputies from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office were looking near another Orlando apartment complex, Tymber Skan on the Lake, when they spotted the remains in a wooded area at 10:45 a.m. As per the sheriff, a pocketbook with Marcano’s identity was discovered near the body.
Deputies were in the neighbourhood because mobile phone records showed that Armando Manuel Caballero, a “prime suspect,” was in or near the apartments the night Marcano went missing. Caballero used to live at the complex, according to Mina, and was there for around 20 minutes.
Caballero, 27, worked as a maintenance worker at the Arden Villas apartment complex and had expressed romantic interest in Marcano, but she had consistently rejected his amorous approaches, according to authorities.
