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Florida parents left boy, 16, by side of the road with bag of guns and told him to fend for himself, police say
Daily Mail ^ | 10-9-25 | JAMES CIRRONE

Posted on 10/10/2025 7:13:10 AM PDT by dynachrome

A Florida couple was arrested last week after police said they abandoned their 16-year-old son on the side of the road with a bag full of guns.

The parents, Bradley Leon Guerrero Santos, 36, and Rosanella Mendiola Borja, 35, are facing child neglect charges.

Police in North Port, a city near Sarasota, received a 911 call on the evening of October 1 about 'a suspicious male' who was walking south on the northbound side on Interstate-75, according to a probable cause affidavit.

An officer approached the boy, who reluctantly identified himself as the child of Santos and Borja.

He said that when he got home from school that day, his parents told him they were taking a trip.

After he walked the family dog, he saw them 'frantically throwing clothes into two duffel bags' before rushing the him and his eight-year-old sibling into the car, the affidavit said.

Once the teenager was told that their destination was 'either Guam or Idaho', he said he didn't want to go, police said.

That's allegedly when Santos and Borja kicked him out of the car, leaving him with two semiautomatic pistols in a bag and some cash. He was also told to 'take care of the house', police said.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: abandon; bagofguns; banglist; childabuse; eitherguamoridaho; florida

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To: lee martell
Looks like the parents may be in need of a 'disappearer'.



21 posted on 10/10/2025 7:40:18 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: marktwain

This seems kinda silly to me.

A 16-year-old cannot be allowed to house sit by himself?

How far was he from home? The article does not say.

It would have been better to leave the boy at the house. $500,000 bond on the parents seems rather excessive.


22 posted on 10/10/2025 7:42:22 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: dynachrome

run along little boy, you’re free!


23 posted on 10/10/2025 7:44:09 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: martin_fierro

Guam or Idaho ?..
.
How about Acapulco.


24 posted on 10/10/2025 7:44:28 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: marktwain
This seems kinda silly to me. A 16-year-old cannot be allowed to house sit by himself?

kicked him out of the car, leaving him with two semiautomatic pistols in a bag and some cash. He was also told to 'take care of the house', police said.

Not sure the legality of giving two pistols to a 16 year old in Florida. In NYS it's a no no.

25 posted on 10/10/2025 7:45:23 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

They were given by the parents.

Florida law has an exception for possession of unloaded firearms in the home or hunting or target practice or transporting a firearm to and from those events, for 16-year-old people.

As the 16-year-old was on his way home, it might fall under the transporting law...


26 posted on 10/10/2025 7:55:41 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain
As the 16-year-old was on his way home, it might fall under the transporting law...

LOL, yes he was, after being abandoned by his parents, which is a whole other conversation.

27 posted on 10/10/2025 7:57:38 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: dynachrome

They were driving to Guam?


28 posted on 10/10/2025 7:57:48 AM PDT by rey
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To: dynachrome

Sounds like something I would do.


29 posted on 10/10/2025 7:59:26 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: dynachrome

The parents were nutjobs but that $500k bail is way excessive. It’s not like they left the kid in extreme danger. After all they did leave him with “a bag of guns” lol.


30 posted on 10/10/2025 8:05:48 AM PDT by jimwatx
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To: dynachrome

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot. But I always found them.


31 posted on 10/10/2025 8:11:51 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: plain talk

Good old fashioned Saber Rattling!


32 posted on 10/10/2025 8:13:49 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: fishtank

LOL


33 posted on 10/10/2025 8:17:37 AM PDT by dynachrome (“They don’t kill you because you’re a Nazi; they call you a Nazi so they can kill you.”)
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To: lee martell

ICE ICE BABY


34 posted on 10/10/2025 8:26:31 AM PDT by dinodino ( Shut it down anyway. )
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To: lee martell

And what crime(s) did those two “guns” get involved in?


35 posted on 10/10/2025 8:29:13 AM PDT by egfowler3 (COVID-19, today's Hypochondriacal psychosis (aka: Delusional parasitosis))
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To: tumblindice

LOL!


36 posted on 10/10/2025 8:31:21 AM PDT by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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To: marktwain

Not if the judge determined that they’re flight risks


37 posted on 10/10/2025 8:33:28 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Big Red Badger
This is a weird story.
16 yrs Boy with two pistols,cash and
Wandering on the streets.!?!

What's so weird about it? Where do you think 'Florida Man' comes from?

38 posted on 10/10/2025 8:38:32 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, the Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: 1Old Pro

At 16 with guns and money I could easily survived


39 posted on 10/10/2025 8:38:39 AM PDT by riverrunner
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Ha!
Hold My Latte’
And Watch This!


40 posted on 10/10/2025 8:40:36 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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