Connected to a Drug Organization in puerto rico. Police sources say the gunman might have been hired on the island but it could have been ordered by a drug kingpin who lives in orlando. The only drugrelated charge we found against rojas was in Orange County for Veronica Gutierrez paraphernalia and that was dropped. Local and federal investigators in puerto rico will attend rojass Funeral Service tomorrow morning. 22yearold Joseph Villalobos was also shot and killed. Villalobos had only criminal traffic charges on his record in Orange County. A friend of villalobos told us today she does not know whether villalobos knew rojas. Reporter Orlando Police say theyre still investigating who knew whom and who did what that night. The puerto rico newspaper reports the department of housing in puerto rico would not allow rojass mother to have center so she will have it at her home instead. Opd wont give us anymore information yet, martha. We are still on top of breaking news in Seminole County w
Reporter first, he and many neighbors discovered mold and rotten wood inside of their berkshire place units, built by homes, an Engineering Company blaped defective stucco. When they opened up outside walls. They just taken the strength out of this joist. Reporter they found this. Wood joists that support the second story, cut wide open near the walls. Their attorneys engineer called that critical Code Violations that jeopardized the structure. Defective construction. Its outrageous. Reporter they took pictures inside three other homes to document risky floor joists. And bad stucco in at least half of the 140 homes. Owners here claim the repairs to make their homes safe again will cost at least 6. 6 million dollars. They told me its aware and working to resolve this issue asks honoring the warranties. Cannot file lawsuits. Both sides begin mediation tomorrow. Just praying to god that this gets settled before a disaster happens. Reporter now, theyre disa pointed that the homeowners atto
Floor. I asked what happened and she told me she was all right and i said im going to call the ambulance that she can call the ambulance so i called the ambulance and they came and got hospital. Reporter at the time he did given birth. When he returned home detectives told him the baby missing. Police believe the mother abandoned her. Homicide investigators and crime scene investigators worked together evidence while crews and dogs came at the dashcam best the area but did not find the baby. People are wondering how a mother could leave a child behind. She said i had the baby when i came home. I called the ambulance. Reporter another sad part of the story is directly across the street you can see theres a police substation. She could have walked there and asked for help and folks say she couldve asked for help from Anyone Around the apartment complex it at this point police have not confirmed the mothers identity. Live in orlando, jeff deal channel 9 Eyewitness News. What is more heart
Those advisories in effect until 9 00 this morning as temperatures will be close to freezing. Look, we are well below freezing right now in Marion County for ocala. We are at 28 degrees there. 36 in the villages. Right there in lake county, leesburg, 38. We are at 40 in orlando. 38 is the temperature in Daytona Beach and in new smyrna beach. We are at 38 in Brevard County for melbourne. Area wide, we are cold enough for a big coat. If you have frost, we want you to pin the photos with our storm pins app. Search wkmg in the app store. You can pin the photo immediately. Through the day, well see a lot of sunshine getting us to 61 at noon. 65 by 4 00. A warmer afternoon but certainly a cold start. Coming up, well talk about the 70s returning as early as tomorrow. Lets check on the roads and go to apple in the traffic center. Morning drive is doing fine at this point. Clearing out overnight construction. Over on the shoulder along ivanhoe on i4 this morning doing ok. These are eastbound ca
I just spoke with the deputy within the last 10 minutes. Im working to confirm whether or not they found the getaway car that was involved in this robbery. They are not sure they believe the suspect got away in a white mustang and deputies say they found a white mustang at a nearby hotel. They are working to see if that was the car involved in this robbery. Ill get that information to you on air and online. We know the victim is expected to be ok. Hay got a call about this robbery at 6 16 this morning before closing time. Witnesses tell deputies the suspect entered the restaurant with the gun and demanded money. Wfrgs and had his face covered. He forced workers into an office and thats when they heard shots fired. He ran out and confronted another man. That man went into Hunters Creek for observation. The victim who was shot, he was sho twice. He is recovering at osceola medical center. His injuries are nonlife threatening. He is expected to be ok. This is a developing story. Once i ge