Couple Making a Getaway Leave Boy on Florida Highway with a Bag of Guns and Cash | Crime Alert 11AM 10.08.25

A Florida couple has been charged with child neglect after leaving a juvenile by himself on the side of I-75, with a bag containing handguns, to fend for himself, police say.

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Episode Transcript

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Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Nicole
parton a disturbing case out of southwest Florida. Two adults
are facing charges after allegedly abandoning a child along Interstate
seventy five with nothing but a bag containing guns a cash.
Northport police responded to a nine to one one call

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about a suspicious young male walking alone near the Sumter
Boulevard exit. When officers arrived, the child told them he'd
been traveling with Bradley Santos and Rosanella Borhey, heading, he said,
to either Idaho or Guam, but somewhere along the way,
the couple pulled over, kicked him out of the suv

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and handed him two bags, one filled with guns, the
other with cash. They're parting words take care of the house,
the juvenile explained. The pair had been acting erradically, throwing
clothes into Douffel bags and rushing him and a sibling
into the car. He said. Santos, described as deeply religious,
often called him the chosen One and tested his mental

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strength with bizarre task, this roadside abandonment being one of them.
The child's phone was dead, he had no way to
call for help. Officers attempted to reach the couple but
got no response. They escorted the boy back to the home,
where they found the garage door open, the front door, ajar,
and firearms scattered throughout the house. Eventually, Santo's phone was

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traced to a parking lot in what Chula, Florida. He
was found with Borhey and another child, Bradley. Santos now
faces charges of child neglect and allowing a miner to
possess a firearm. The mother is also charged with child neglect,
war crime. Injustice News after this and now to Tennessee,

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where a homicide investigation is underway in Nashville Police Department
there saying they are treating the death of a seventy
four year old woman as a murder case. Harriet Edwards
was discovered dead shortly after nine am on Monday in
her home where she lived alone. Her passing race concern
when a close friend had not heard from her for

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several days. A neighbor reported the last sighting of Edwards
occurred on Friday, October three. Authorities indicated that based on
entries in a medical journal maintained by Edwards, they believe
she was murdered between two thirty pm and seven thirty
pm on October three, and autopsy conducted on Tuesday determined
that the cause of death was strangulation, and it also

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suggested she had sustained blunt force trauma to her head.
The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department's crime scene investigators have meticulously
examined Edward's home and are working with forensic scientists at
the crime lab. Detectives have reached out to residence in
the vicinity to inquire about any unusual activity observed on

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Friday afternoon, but so far, no real all of an
information has been reported. Residents with any information related to
the case are encouraged to reach out to the Nashville
Crime Stoppers at six one five seven four two seven
four sixty three. Police in South Carolina are asking the
public's assistance. Two teenage girls have vanished without a trace.

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Their names are Gracie Abbot and Delilah Abbot. They were
last seen on October five in Aiken, South Carolina. Gracie
Abbot sixteen years old, Delilah fifteen. The girls are more
than names on a flyer. Their parents say they are daughters, sisters,
and friends. Right now, they're out there somewhere, possibly in danger.

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Anyone with information is asked to please call the Aken
Police Department at one eight hundred the Lost or one
eight zero three six four to two seven six to zero.
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I'm Nichol parton MHM.