More than two months after a baby's body was discovered in a bag inside a dumpster in Hollywood, police have arrested the mother and a man in connection with the case.
The baby's mother, 36-year-old Brenda Feliciano, and Terence Briggance Warren, 59, were arrested Thursday by Hollywood Police on charges of failing to report a death to the medical examiner. Warren faces an additional charge of improper disposal of a dead body, an arrest affidavit said.
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According to the affidavit, the body was found inside a reusable Aldi bag inside the dumpster outside an apartment building in the 1700 block of Rodman Street the morning of Jan. 8.
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An official from a roofing company notified police in a 911 call that one of his employees had found the body.
"One of my job sites, we're a roofing company, we have found a child in a dumpster," the man says in the call. "Child, a kid, a human."
According to the affidavit, authorities responded and pronounced the baby, a boy, dead at the scene.
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The affidavit noted the baby "appeared to be in a healthy condition without any apparent signs of trauma."
The heavily redacted affidavit doesn't explain Warren's connection with the baby, but said he failed to report the baby's death to the medical examiner the day before, Jan. 7, and transported or disposed of the body without a permit.
Detectives tracked down Warren after identifying him in surveillance footage that showed him driving a white Kia Sorrento to the apartment building, removing a bag from the passenger window, and then throwing it in the dumpster, an arrest warrant stated. Detectives also found blood on the front side passenger seat.
A search of Warren's cellphone showed a text message from Feliciano on Jan. 2 stating, "I'm almost f------ 40 weeks pregnant. What are you talking about!"
Detectives later matched Feliciano to the DNA on the Aldi bag handles, according to the warrant. She had been arrested by Hollywood Police in early February on an unrelated narcotics warrant.
