The cremated bones of a woman who died in 2024 were just discovered in a massive pile of illegally discarded trash.
According to ABC7, on October 30, Charlotte County Sheriff police responded to an area near Punta Gorda, Fla., and discovered a pile of trash weighing more than 500 pounds. The site stated that among the debris was a bag labeled with cremated human remains.
Daniel Rolando, 26, has subsequently been charged with one felony count of littering more than 500 pounds of commercial or hazardous garbage, according to ABC 7.
According to Gulf Coast News, the human remains were identified as Nina Monica Brown, a 39-year-old who died in 2024.
According to the source, resident Heather Lemcool stated that the human remains were in a box and plastic bag, not an urn. “Her name, day to day, date of birth and date of death, and the funeral home was all on this, ID card attached to the ashes,” she told me.
According to Gulf Coast News, the majority of the rubbish belongs to an anonymous Sarasota lady whose storage unit was auctioned off on October 16 after she failed to fulfill her lease. However, the woman said she has no idea how the human remains ended there in the pile.
The site also reported that detectives met with a storage unit employee who informed them that Rolando, the 26-year-old suspect, had won the auction for the woman’s unit.
According to ABC7, investigators found security footage and data indicating that Rolando purchased two storage spaces during the auction. The defendant allegedly admitted to dumping the stuff he didn’t want.
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According to ABC7, officers apprehended Rolando after he returned to the area to tidy the trash mound.
People contacted the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office for more information on Sunday, Nov. 9, but did not receive an instant response.
Brown’s friend Precious Tunstall told Wink News that the late mother had sickle cell disease and was not expected to “live past the age of 21.”
“They told her she’d never have children. She had four lovely children, two girls and two boys, and she did everything she could to provide for them,” Tunstall explained.
The buddy wishes to retrieve and restore the woman’s remains to her family.
“It was very inconsiderate of him to just dump her on the side of the road,” Tunstall told me. “I would like to have her ashes back, her remains back, so her children can have her remains.”
