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At one Florida home, children asked for help with notes and text messages. Police deployed drones and SWAT and successfully rescued the trapped people, and arrested Smithson, a 33-year-old man suspected of illegal imprisonment.
Daily Mail report,Florida At one home, several children posted handwritten “Help Us” notes on windows asking for help. Police eventually successfully helped the children escape and arrested 33-year-old Andre Janard Smithson.
According to The Palm Beach Post, the family reported the incident to the Kissimmee Police Department on October 26, after a child in the home sent worrying text messages to his grandmother. Police inspected with drone and found children hiding in a room of the house. A child left a troubling note on the window. Police released a screenshot taken from a drone on November 10.
After this the police sent a SWAT team to the house, but no one opened the door. The children who spoke to police by phone said they were so afraid of Smithson that the man prevented them from leaving.
According to a statement from the Kissimmee Police Department, police helped the children flee the scene, while Smithson was distracted by police outside the home, and Smith eventually “peacefully surrendered.” He was arrested on suspicion of false imprisonment (false imprisonment) and an outstanding arrest warrant. The statement did not disclose the specific contents of the arrest warrant, nor did it disclose the relationship between Smithson and the children.
Court records show that in 2013, SmithsonFlorida An Alachua County man was accused of attacking a stranger, but the victim decided not to press charges. It is not clear whether he has hired a lawyer. As of press time, the Daily Mail has not received any response from Kissimmee Police.
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A child in the home first sent a worrying text message to his grandmother, and the family called the police on October 26. Later, several children posted handwritten “Help us” notes on the window, allowing police to confirm that the situation was urgent.
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The police first used a drone to investigate and confirmed that the child was hiding in a room of the house, and then sent SWAT to the house. When the police outside the home attracted the suspect’s attention, police officers helped the child leave the scene, and no one was injured in the process.
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Smithson was arrested on suspicion of false imprisonment and outstanding warrants. Police did not release details of the arrest warrant, nor did they describe his relationship with the child; Court records show he was involved in an assault case in 2013, but was not charged.
