Digging deep into a residential backyard, Broward Sheriff's deputies have turned heads in a Pompano Beach neighborhood where the details of an "active and ongoing criminal investigation" remain as buried as the evidence they seek. CBS News reported that BSO officials are keeping tight-lipped about the operation, which involved tools like a backhoe and shovels fiercely plunging into the earth of a rental property.
Neighbors have found themselves wrapped up in a mystery, making note of detectives who last week directed their efforts to one side of the home, only to shift their focus based on a prisoner's guidance. Adding to the intrigue and stirring emotions among those who inhabit the surrounding dwellings, the search is said to be in connection with a 40-year-old missing person's case, "It hurts even as long as I've been here that somebody might be buried," a teary-eyed neighbor told CBS News. The search, unconfirmed by officials, has turned normalcy on its head, with the backhoe's roar and the earth's upheaval being the only clarity given, as detectives remain silent on the scope and specific nature of their investigation.
The address, straddling the border of Pompano Beach and Deerfield Beach, has become the focal point for BSO's mysterious endeavors. On the scene, Local 10 News shared footage of the tent, under which investigators sifted through the extracted soil and what neighbors suspect are human remains, "Last Wednesday, actually the medical examiner’s vehicle was out here and they pulled out multiple tubs, which I’m assuming was bodies or remains," recounted neighbor Bruce Reid, capturing the gravity of the work carried out in their midst.
