Miya Marcano’s family lawyer responds to sheriff’s comments on investigation

Miya Marcano’s family lawyer responds to sheriff’s comments on investigation

Miya Marcano, 19, was documented lacking after she did not board a scheduled flight from Orlando to Ft. Lauderdale on Friday, Sept. 24, 2021.

The attorney for the family members of Miya Marcano has responded next a information meeting held by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office environment relating to the investigation into her disappearance and dying. 

In a letter sent out by the lawyer’s workplace, Lawyer Washington thinks “it was shameful to say that no make any difference what they did or didn’t do, that Miya was lifeless anyway. That statement is the equivalent of declaring “prisons really should not incarcerate murderers simply because the sentencing however won’t carry the dead again to life anyways.”

Miya Marcano, 19, was noted lacking after she did not board a scheduled flight from Orlando to Ft. Lauderdale on Friday, Sept. 24, 2021.

The letter goes on to say that it is ‘insulting’ that a assertion was reportedly manufactured that deputies cannot detain folks based on a “hunch.”

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“This family members offered extra than ample proof which include a video of [Armando] Caballero carrying Miya’s blanket in his condominium. In addition, Sheriff Mina indicated by means of press convention that Miya’s place was ‘clean,’ even so that same responding deputy educated Miya’s mother that the area looked ‘disturbing’ and that she should really start out the process to listing Miya as a missing person.”

The attorney also thoughts why if Miya was outlined as a lacking man or woman her was area not right away produced a crime scene, “get started viewing cameras and pulling the key FOB documents quickly? We feel this procedure should’ve commenced even prior to the relatives arrived at 3 a.m.”

“The sheriff’s timeline demonstrates Miya was detailed as a missing person at 1:36 a.m. That is even a lot more causes why more action must have been taken whilst Caballero was inside arm’s get to of the deputy. We hope that the Orange County Sheriff’s Workplace will use this moment as an prospect to master from the errors that have been produced as opposed to defending steps that are indefensible.”

Associated: Protest for better safety planned at Miya Marcano’s apartment intricate

Deputies reported the 19-yr-outdated school pupil was last seen on the afternoon of Friday, Sept. 24, at the Arden Villas apartments in Orlando. The prime suspect in her disappearance and death, 27-year-previous Armando Manuel Caballero, was uncovered lifeless from an evident suicide on Monday, Sept. 27.

Loved ones, buddies, and regulation enforcement searched for days just before discovering her entire body on Saturday, Oct. 2. 

The Marcano loved ones is in the course of action of finalizing funeral arrangements. 

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