Police yet to identify kids found in Delray canal; questioning of man in case continues - Palm Beach Interactive |
| Posted: By Cynthia Roldan and Michael LaForgia Palm Beach Post Staff Writers Updated: 2:29 p.m. Friday, March 4, 2011 Posted: 9:53 a.m. Friday, March 4, 2011 DELRAY BEACH — The Delray Beach man being questioned by police in the deaths of two children found in bags in a canal on Wednesday has been taken into federal custody, a police spokeswoman said this morning. Clem Beauchamp, who police began questioning Thursday night, was formally charged Thursday in U.S. District Court with possession of a silenced firearm, according to a complaint filed by an agent with Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. In laying out the federal allegations, the ATF agent described finding in the trunk of Brown's repossessed car a .22-caliber handgun fitted with a homemade silencer and a black bag filled with a green Halloween mask, ammunition, a black knit cap and a tube of crack. Beauchamp, 34, is the owner of the house at Southwest Seventh Avenue that police have cordoned off and been searching since Thursday for evidence in the slayings of the two children. Police spokeswoman Nicole Guerriero said this morning that the search continues, but still declined to identify the victims, describe a cause of death or say whether they were children in Beauchamp's care. This morning, investigators could also be seen digging a little in the back yard of the house and towing away three cars. Guerriero said police still did not know the whereabouts of Felecia Brown, the mother of two of the children believed to live in Beachamp's home, and called it a "concerning." But police are not treating it like a disappearance, she said. The mother of two other children believed to live at the home, Michelle Dent, had come into the police station on Thursday, Guerriero said. "But we haven't seen her since; and don't know where she is," she said. Meanwhile, Delray Beach police responded to a "domestic" call around noon today at Dent's last known address. A woman was seen leaving the back of the house in the 1600 block of Northeast Third Avenue and going into the house next door. Neighbors had heard some sort of argument involving children at the house and called it in. But police left the scene without taking anyone into custody. Guerriero also said police have not received any missing children notifications. Someone stuffed the bodies of two small children, a girl between 6 and 10 and a boy between 10 and 12, into plain black bags and dumped them in a canal on the city's south side. They were found bobbing in the water on Wednesday. A search for their killer on Thursday led detectives to Beauchamp's little tan house on Southwest Seventh Avenue. The girl, who was black, had been shoved into a black duffel bag. The boy, who was also black, was folded into a suitcase. Both had been placed in a long, wide canal and stayed there until Wednesday, when a passerby spotted a strange little buoy bobbing near the city's south side. Police divers went into the water twice, 6½ hours apart, and emerged cradling little bodies, children who had died and were cast off like old shoes, investigators said. They found the girl about 9 a.m. They said she appeared to be between 6 and 10 years old. She was dressed in short sleeves, dark pants and blue Polo sneakers. Her hair was arranged in braids, with clear and white beads decorating each strand. They found the boy about 3:30 p.m. in a soft, black suitcase, a half-mile west of where the girl was discovered. He appeared to be between 10 and 12 years old. He wore dark blue or black pants but no shirt. Neither child showed obvious injury. Neither carried any immediate clues to his or her identity. Detectives were investigating the deaths as homicides, and they believe, for obvious reasons, that the killings were related, Delray police spokeswoman Nicole Guerriero said. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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