A Florida mother who was reported missing by a concerned co-worker was found alive in a shipping container after hearing someone banging on her locked door, police said. Announced.
Marlene Lopez, 52, was found Thursday afternoon on Cocoa Boulevard “trapped in a shipping container next to a business,” the Cocoa Police Department said in a statement on Facebook.
Authorities said she was last seen at her home Monday but was reported missing Wednesday after a concerned co-worker called police and said she hadn't come to pick up her son. .
“During the investigation, detectives received a call that a woman had been found. She was banging on the shipping container door, and someone heard her banging and unlocked the door,” police said. Ta.
The owner of the shipping container, Tyler Sonnenberg, told local station WKMG that he first saw Lopez walking in the area on Monday. He locked the container storing the lawn mower on Tuesday afternoon and said he didn't hear anything Wednesday, the news station said.
Sonnenberg said he believes Lopez walked into the unit on his own and lost consciousness. He told the station it wasn't his fault that Lopez got stuck inside the container.
Police said they are still investigating how Lopez got inside the container.
