THEN THEY LET ANYONE IN HERE---- from strangers in ice-cream trucks to people selling oranges, to solicitors DESPITE the SIGNS that say NO SOLICITING... but the HOA's say they can't do anything... DESPITE what the contract states that they are RESPONSIBLE for keeping the community safe among other things it states and which they REFUSE to comply. If we don't comply with paying, we get cable/internet disconnected. WHAT happens when THEY don't comply? NOTHING.
We still have plenty of people speeding and LOADS of people parking at the entrance where NO PARKING is allowed. Vehicles change DAILY, sometimes parked overnight in front of empty homes located at the exit of the community. NO ONE DOES ANYTHING about this. Who are these people? They do not live here but can park close to the exit in no parking area where they can easily get away.
Does something like THIS have to happen in INDEPENDENCE for someone to REACT and at least get back the services we pay for???
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WINTER GARDEN, Fla. -- A Winter Garden couple who were injured in a home invasion were held against their will for several days, according to a charging affidavit.
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Winter Garden police identified the two men detained for questioning as Miguel Diaz-Santiz, 25, and Victor Sanchez-Santiz, 20, as suspects. Another accused, Oscar Diaz-Hernandez, was arrested on Wednesday a woman involved in the incident has not been located.
According to the affidavit, five people forced themselves into a home on Lake Roberts Landing in the Lake Roberts subdivision near Stoney Brook Parkway on Saturday and forced Ruben and Marcela Morais and their 5-year-old son to drive to an unknown location in Apopka. The affidavit said the suspects and their accomplices held the three, bound and gagged, there until Monday, when they drove the woman to a Bank of America in Ocoee and forced her to remove $23,000 from the family's account.
The affidavit said the three were still being held by the suspects and their accomplices at the family's home on Tuesday, when the woman pulled off the mask of one of the abductors – a woman. The unmasked woman screamed, "She saw my face and knows who I am. You have to kill her," the report said.
The affidavit said the Marcela Morais was able to loosen her bonds and jump from a second-story window. As she ran to a neighbor's home for help, she was shot in the side, the affidavit said.
"My guys called and said the lady ran out into his arms and that she was shot," general contractor Dave Schlobach said.
The Winter Garden police chief said the crime does not appear to be random.
"I don't think people need to be alarmed or concerned that this will happen again," George Brennan said.
Police also did not say if the Morais family knew their attackers. "Regardless if there's a connection or not, this should not have happened to anyone," said Keith Ralston, of the Winter Police Department. "They bound, gagged and blindfolded the mother as well as the child."
Homes in that neighborhood are valued between $400,000 and $1 million. The neighborhood is under construction.
Police said they caught two men outside the subdivision wall. As he was being led between police cars, one suspect said in Spanish that he was lied to and had nothing to do with the home invasion.
The police department said two other assailants fled in the homeowner's Audi A7. The Orange County Sheriff's Office assisted in the search with its helicopter. The car has since been recovered.
Lake Whitney Elementary and West Orange High School were locked down because of the search, but were later reopened.
Neighbors said they have a false sense of security in the newly developed neighborhood, because of the gates. The gates are open all day for construction vehicles.
"We've been asking to meet with Meritage to close up the gate or have stickers or have someone at the gate to control who comes in and out," neighbor Frederick Larue said.
