Authorities are relentlessly searching for Miya Marcano, a 19-year-old Latina who disappeared on Friday, September 24, after leaving her job in Orlando, Florida.
"Please help
me find my princess,
" her grandmother pleaded during a press conference on Monday.
"We are asking people if they have seen it, please call the police," he added, his voice cracking with emotion.
The young woman was last seen shortly before 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) in the parking area of the Arden Villas apartment complex in Orlando, where she lived and worked in the leasing office, according to the county sheriff at the same appearance.
Image of Miya Marcano, the young Latina who disappeared in Orlando, Florida Telemundo
On the same Friday afternoon, he
was scheduled to take a flight, but he never made it to the airport
.
Authorities began their search on Sunday in the wooded area behind the house.
They also
declared Armando Manuel Caballero
a
person of interest in the case
, a 27-year-old maintenance worker from the same residential area who had shown that he was romantically interested in Marcano.
The young woman had rejected him several times
On Caballero there was an
arrest warrant for having robbed
the young woman's apartment half an hour before she finished working.
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However, he
was found dead
on the same Monday afternoon in his apartment, located in Seminole County, north of Orlando.
The authorities have focused part of the investigation on Caballero's vehicle.
Marcano's disappearance occurs just
days after the tragic outcome of Gabby Petito
, a 22-year-old girl whose body was found on September 20 in a Wyoming national park after several weeks missing.
This was the emotional funeral of Gabby Petito in New York
Sept.
27, 202102: 15
Petito had gone on a van trip across the country with her boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, but
her family lost contact with her
in late August.
Police began their search on September 11.
By then Laundrie
had returned alone
and was driving the van to the house he shared with Petito in Florida.
The man, declared a person of interest in the case,
refused to cooperate with the police
.
He is currently missing after entering a nature reserve in Florida.
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