HIALEAH GARDENS, Fla. — A Sunday night complaint about a noisy dog led a Hialeah Gardens police officer to find something much more serious, authorities say: Two children living in a feces-filled and roach-infested home.
Their 30-year-old father, Eury Colon, is now facing two felony charges.
According to an arrest report, Hialeah Gardens police were sent to Northwest 111th Terrace at around 9:30 p.m. regarding a “loud barking dog.”
The report states that the officer heard the dog and knocked on the door of the home for five minutes in an attempt to speak with someone.
“I then noticed a window located to the far right on the front residence with the bedroom lights on and made several knocks,” the officer wrote. “After several knocks, a toddler opened the blinds. I observed the toddler nude, as well as a room full of used Pampers (diapers) covered in feces.”
Colon drove up a short time later and claimed that the children’s mother was inside sleeping, but went into the home “and attempted to shut the door,” the report stated.
“I informed Eury that for the safety of the children, he needs to keep the door open so I can have a visual of (them), because of the fact that the children appeared to be alone and at this time this had become a police investigation,” the officer wrote.
Police said Colon made a statement, which was redacted from the report, that led the officer to handcuff him.
Under “exigent circumstances,” the officer then went inside to find the toddler, police said.
The officer found “the toddler with feces on his left leg as well as a room full of used Pampers full of feces,” and, in another bedroom, a baby, the report states.
“I then canvassed the residence and found (it) in a disheveled state,” the officer wrote. “I found multiple opened containers of food lying around the house. I also observed feces all over the residence floor, as well as roaches all over the residence and the children’s rooms.”
Police said they contacted the Florida Department of Children and Families. They said a DCF investigator arrived soon after and “deemed the living conditions hazardous,” leading the agency to remove the children from the home.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue medics took the children to Palmetto General Hospital for evaluation and police took Colon into custody on two child neglect charges.
Colon was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center as of Monday afternoon, with a bond listed as “to be set” in online jail records.
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