Crime & Safety
UPDATE: 2 Missing Girls Found
The elementary-aged children were reported missing after walking away from a home on Coolmont Drive in Brandon and later found at a Beverage Castle.
Update (7:49 p.m.): Hillsborough County Sherif's deputies found the two girls tonight inside a Beverage Castle at 86th Street and Causeway Blvd. They will be interviewed and returned to their parents, according to a press release.
Earlier: Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputies are searching the Heather Lakes subdivision tonight, Feb. 8, for two missing 10-year-old girls.
According to a media release, the girls Micaila Jaden Restall and Daramy Charles were last seen walking away from a home at 1213 Coolmont Drive in Brandon around 8:30 a.m. this morning.
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“Deputies believe they may have gone to the Florida State Fair without their parents’ permission,” the release said. “A search for the two is also being conducted at the State Fair."
According to a flier on the case (see included PDF), Restall may be carrying a Buccaneers backpack or a zebra print backpack.
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Anyone with information on the girls’ whereabouts is asked to call the sheriff’s office at 813-247-8200 or email jhiverso@hcso.tampa.fl.us.
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