FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Surveillance video shows a woman who told police officers she was holding a girl who had scrapes on her head after falling from a moving car in Miami-Dade County when a woman claiming to be the girl’s mother snatched her away and sped away on Thursday, according to police officers.
Detectives later identified the girl as one-year-old Cassidy and her 29-year-old mother as Tasshay Mills, who was on hold at the Broward County main jail on Saturday in Fort Lauderdale awaiting extradition over child abuse and neglect charges in Miami-Dade, records show.
After Cassidy fell out of the car at about 8:30 p.m., on Thursday, near Northwest 37 Avenue and 54 Street, in Hialeah, police officers started to search a red 2016 Chevrolet Malibu. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement issued a “Missing Child Alert” on Friday morning.
According to the Hialeah Police Department, law enforcement found Cassidy in Opa-locka and she and a sibling were with the Florida Department of Children and Families. Records show Miramar police officers arrested Mills in Miramar and Broward Sheriff’s Office correctional deputies booked her on Friday.
Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477 or Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.