MIAMI – There is an area in Miami’s Model City neighborhood where garbage tends to pile up.
Dispatchers reported someone called 911 saying there appeared to be a human body inside an abandoned trash bag there, according to police scanner traffic Saturday.
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Miami police officers responded to investigate the report in the area near Northwest 15 Avenue and 45 Street. Josh Salazar, a Local 10 News photojournalist, also responded and talked to police officers there who told him it turned out to be a “very realistic life-size doll.”
A spokesperson for the Miami Police Department did not confirm the incident. Mimi-Dade County employees ask anyone with information about illegal dumping to submit an online service request by calling 311 or visiting this page.
Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editor Stephany Heilbron contributed to this report.