OCSO searching for missing person in Winter Garden

Sheriff deputies were looking at a property on Pennsylvania Avenue Monday afternoon.

By Amy Quesinberry
| 5:38 p.m. November 11, 2019

West Orange Times & Observer
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Investigators with the Orange County Sheriff's Office were in Winter Garden all afternoon Monday, Nov. 11, in connection with a missing-persons case. They were at a property on Pennsylvania Avenue after receiving a tip about the case of Jerilynn Handley, who was reported missing in 2017.

"Detectives did not locate anything at the scene and are clearing the area," according to a Sheriff's Office statement released Monday around 6 p.m. "However this is still active investigation. "We never stop looking for missing people and encourage anyone with more information regarding the whereabouts of Handley to please contact Crimeline at 1-800-423-TIPS."

There are no more details that can be released at this time, as the investigation is active and ongoing, according to a Sheriff's Office statement.

More information will be shared as it becomes available.

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Amy Quesinberry

Community Editor Amy Quesinberry was born at the old West Orange Memorial Hospital and raised in Winter Garden. Aside from earning her journalism degree from the University of Georgia, she hasn’t strayed too far from her hometown and her three-mile bubble. She grew up reading The Winter Garden Times and knew in the eighth grade she wanted to write for her community newspaper. She has been part of the writing and editing team since 1990.