A crash sound coming from a locked shipping container led police in Florida to find a missing woman who had reportedly been trapped inside a steel box for three days.
Marlene Lopez, 52, appeared disoriented and unable to explain what had happened when she emerged from a red metal container used to store lawn mowers in Cocoa around noon Thursday. Ta.
“I was in one place and I was found in another,” a disheveled Lopez, wearing a leather biker jacket and tights, muttered as he walked to an ambulance to be taken to the hospital for tests. According to Fox 35.
shipping container owner He told News 6 he found a lighter and a pipe. Inside after rescuing Lopez.
Lopez was reported missing on Wednesday after her co-workers called police out of concern for her safety after she failed to pick up her son, but the woman had been missing since Monday. The Cocoa Police Department made the announcement in a Facebook post..
Detectives learned that she had been found while interviewing Lopez’s family and investigating the locations she allegedly visited.
“She was banging on the door of the shipping container when someone heard her and unlocked the door,” police said.
Lopez was not injured, but was hospitalized for tests and possible dehydration.
Cocoa businessman Tyler Sonneberg, owner of the shipping container that held Lopez for three days, said he first saw the woman walking in the area Monday night.
He said he locked the container on Tuesday afternoon and heard no sound the next day.
Sonneberg said he believes Lopez may have wandered inside the container and passed out.
“She was there since Monday night, we believe that,” Cocoa Police Department spokeswoman Yvonne Martinez told the program.
Police are investigating how Lopez got into the container, but no charges have been announced so far.
