Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Parents Abandon 6-year-old Girl and Her Dog | Crime Alert 04.17.25
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime Alert. I'm Nancy Grace breaking crime needs now. A
- 0:03Speaker 1: woman tells Belucia County, Florida deputies there's a small girl
- 0:07Speaker 1: and dog wandering through her yard. Minutes later, officers find
- 0:11Speaker 1: the girl sitting in a chair under a stranger's carpoard.
- 0:14Speaker 1: She says her parents dropped her off and left. The
- 0:17Speaker 1: girl says she's homeless, hot, thirsty, and hungry. The woman
- 0:21Speaker 1: and a neighbor bring her food, water, clean clothes, and toys.
- 0:25Speaker 2: Nancy, the six year old little girl, tells police mommy
- 0:28Speaker 2: and daddy left her at the park to go charge
- 0:30Speaker 2: their phones early that morning, but they never came back.
- 0:34Speaker 2: First responders determined the girl did not suffer any injuries
- 0:37Speaker 2: after spending the day outside. Parents, aquana Estes and Petrez Floyd,
- 0:41Speaker 2: do not have a permanent address and never enrolled their
- 0:44Speaker 2: daughter in school. The little girl taken into the state's
- 0:47Speaker 2: custody and later turned over to her grandparents. The parents
- 0:50Speaker 2: located about eight hours after the concerned resident's nine one
- 0:53Speaker 2: one call and arrested.
- 0:54Speaker 1: Aquana Este's twenty seven and boyfriend Petrez Floyd, twenty nine,
- 1:00Speaker 1: now charged with desertion of a child and abandonment of
- 1:03Speaker 1: an animal. A man scales the Claremont Drive overpass above
- 1:07Speaker 1: I five, San Diego, claiming he's trying to break a
- 1:11Speaker 1: world record. Police and California Highway patrols shut down northbound
- 1:16Speaker 1: lanes as he lingers on the edge. After about an hour,
- 1:19Speaker 1: he climbs down, saying he's not suicidal or mentally ill,
- 1:22Speaker 1: just attempting a record for quote time and occurrences on
- 1:27Speaker 1: a bridge, whatever that means. The freeway reopens that evening.
- 1:32Speaker 1: He climbs back up. Northbound lanes closed again. Southbound lanes
- 1:37Speaker 1: closed two hours later, traffic stalled for miles. He backs
- 1:41Speaker 1: down by midnight. I five reopens sunrise, he goes back.
- 1:47Speaker 1: Northbound lanes shut again seven thirty am, after nineteen hours
- 1:51Speaker 1: of disruption. Officers detain him and he's taken to the
- 1:55Speaker 1: hospital for evaluation. More crime and justice news after this
- 2:02Speaker 1: Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news. Crime
- 2:04Speaker 1: Onlines John Lenley.
- 2:06Speaker 3: Charges have been dropped against two Rhode Island men in
- 2:09Speaker 3: the twenty twenty three death of a fan during a
- 2:11Speaker 3: Patriots game at Gillette Stadium. Justin Mitchell and John Vieira
- 2:15Speaker 3: had faced misdemeanor charges after an altercation involving fifty three
- 2:20Speaker 3: year old Dale Mooney of Newmarket, New Hampshire. Prosecutors he
- 2:24Speaker 3: the men were accused of punching Mooney and the stands
- 2:27Speaker 3: during a game against the Miami Dolphins. Mooney collapsed and
- 2:30Speaker 3: later died at a hospital. Surveillance, video and autopsy findings
- 2:35Speaker 3: were reviewed by the Norfolk County District Attorney's office. The
- 2:38Speaker 3: conclusion no sufficient evidence to support criminal charges in connection
- 2:43Speaker 3: to Mooney's death, while the state medical examiner ruled it
- 2:46Speaker 3: a homicide. The case was listed as cardiactis rhythmia triggered
- 2:51Speaker 3: by an underlying heart condition during the scuffle. Prosecutors dropped
- 2:55Speaker 3: the case, citing the interest of justice. Mooney's death came
- 2:59Speaker 3: during a game the Patriots lost to the Dolphins twenty
- 3:02Speaker 3: four to seventeen. A police shooting in Idaho has left
- 3:06Speaker 3: a disabled teen dead and a community demanding answers. Crime
- 3:10Speaker 3: Online Sidney Sumner has the story.
- 3:13Speaker 2: Seventeen year old Victor Perez had nonverbal autism and lived
- 3:16Speaker 2: with cerebral palsy. On April fifth, police and Pocatello, Idaho,
- 3:20Speaker 2: responded to a nine one one call about a man
- 3:22Speaker 2: with a knife. That man was Victor confused barefoot and
- 3:26Speaker 2: stumbling in his family's yard holding a kitchen knife. His
- 3:29Speaker 2: aunt says he wasn't intoxicated as the caller claimed, but
- 3:32Speaker 2: walked with a stagger due to his condition. Bodycam footage
- 3:35Speaker 2: has not been released, but neighbor video shows officers shouting
- 3:39Speaker 2: at Perez from behind a chain link fence, then opening
- 3:41Speaker 2: fire just twelve seconds after arriving. Nine bullets were removed
- 3:45Speaker 2: in surgery. Doctors later amputated his leg, but Victor never
- 3:49Speaker 2: regained consciousness. On Saturday, he was removed from life support.
- 3:54Speaker 2: Pocatello's police department hasn't commented publicly, but four officers involved
- 3:58Speaker 2: are now on administrative leave. An independent investigation is under
- 4:02Speaker 2: way by the Eastern Idaho Critical Incident Team. Bennett County's
- 4:05Speaker 2: prosecutor says an outside agency will review the case to
- 4:08Speaker 2: avoid conflicts of interest. The shooting is sparked outrage. Protesters
- 4:13Speaker 2: gathered outside city hall over the weekend, holding signs like
- 4:16Speaker 2: justice for Victor and do Better PPD. Police snipers were
- 4:20Speaker 2: seen on rooftops, though the demonstration remained peaceful.
- 4:23Speaker 3: Victor's aunt, Anna Vazquez, says the family is shattered.
- 4:27Speaker 1: Thanks John San Fernando California Mother's Day, we canned. Thirty
- 4:31Speaker 1: two year old Dora Maria Silva vanishes, leaving home eleven
- 4:34Speaker 1: pm in a dark blue and gray ninety seven Chevy Astro.
- 4:39Speaker 1: The van turns up abandoned two miles away Mission Hills empty.
- 4:44Speaker 1: No one sees Dora Maria Silva again. Family says she
- 4:48Speaker 1: has no reason to leave. She's very close with relatives, coworkers,
- 4:52Speaker 1: and her four children. Dora, aged thirty two, is five
- 4:56Speaker 1: to three one hundred and twenty pounds, black, hare, brown eyes,
- 5:00Speaker 1: a few moles on our face. If you have info
- 5:03Speaker 1: on Dora Maria Silva, please dial three two three eight
- 5:08Speaker 1: nine zero fifty five one hundred. For the latest crime
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- 5:22Speaker 1: homicides with this crime alert. I'm Nancy Grace.