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Anas Muhammad, 17
Kissimmee Police released additional details into the stabbing death of a 16-year-old girl in the early morning hours of last Thursday.
Anas Muhammad, 17, has been arrested in connection with the death of Paola Pagan, his downstairs neighbor at the Kensington Apartments along John Young Parkway in north Kissimmee. A case or charges have yet to be filed in Osceola County court.
According to a case affidavit, the victim’s mother found her inside the apartment door around 6:26 a.m., minutes after Paola left to go to the bus stop to head to Osceola High School, with stab wounds to her neck.
KPD’s investigation involved interviewing other juveniles who lived in the apartment complex, who Pagan’s mother said she was friends with. One of them reportedly told detectives she used to be friends with a male juvenile who lived directly above her, who went by the name “Nas”.
Detectives went to the unit Thursday afternoon and a black male, later identified as Muhammad, answered. He gave an account of what he said he did that morning, but when his phone showed a call that didn’t match the story, Muhammad reportedly, “put out his hands and asked to handcuffed, and he stated, ‘How much time would get for murder?’”
He then apologized to his mother then confessed, that he waited at the bottom of the stairs for Pagan to walk into a breezeway, approached her from behind and stabbed her numerous times with a small pocketknife. He then fled the scene, but when questioned led police to where he discarded much of the clothing he was wearing along the Kissimmee Trail.
After paramedics responded Thursday morning, they began lifesaving operations, and Pagan was transported to HCA Florida Osceola Hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries. Muhammad was transferred to the Juvenile Detention Center in Orange County.
Kissimmee felon stockpiling munitions in residence found guilty
A federal jury found Daniel Stephen King, 28, of Kissimmee, guilty of possessing firearms and ammunition as a convicted felon. King faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Jan. 23, 2023.
According to testimony and evidence presented at his April trial, the Osceola County Sherriff’s Office was called to King’s residence due to a domestic disturbance. When the deputies arrived, a resident frantically ran out with her four-year old daughter and informed deputies that King had a large number of firearms and ammunition in the house, and King had strapped on a bullet-proof vest. At the time, King was a convicted felon who was on probation and prohibited from possessing guns or ammunition. The deputies surrounded the house, and after about two hours they were able to persuade King to come out and surrender. A warrant was obtained to search the residence and nine firearms were recovered, including three rifles, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and a ballistic vest. A rifle safe, multiple gun lockboxes, magazines, and an ammunition can were also recovered from inside of the house.
King will have to forfeit all of the firearms and ammunition that we3re part of the offense.
This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and gun violence, and to make neighborhoods safer for residents. In 2021, the Department launched a violent crime reduction strategy, strengthening PSN based on fostering trust and legitimacy in our communities, supporting community-based organizations that help prevent violence from occurring in the first place, setting focused and strategic enforcement priorities, and measuring the results.
Sheriff's Office makes arrest in Kissimmee food trucks burglaries
The Osceola County Sheriff's Office announced it has made an arrest in a rash of food truck burglaries from earlier this month.
Nicole Onque, 22, was arrested and charged with five counts of burglary to conveyances, two counts of grand theft, and three counts of petit theft. She made an initial court appearance Monday. Court records show she is being held in the Osceola County Jail on $16,000 bond.
On Nov. 9 during an investigation, owners of six food trucks at World Food Trucks on west U.S. Highway 192 near International Drive reported that a subject entered their trucks without permission, either by breaking a lock or coming in through a window, and taking cash, lock boxes and tablets used as sale terminals. The total of cash and items taken was $3,225, an incident report said.
The report noted at least four were able to provide investigators with surveillance video, noting a "slender African-American female wearing a hoodie," later identified at Onque, observed in and around the food trucks attempting to open the flip-up service windows of several trucks on Nov. 1 and earlier on the 9th. The same female suspect was observed climbing into the windows of multiple trucks, taking money from registers and a tip jar. In another video, the same suspect was observed running from the property, dropping some of the items as she fled. The truck owner victims said she was a person they'd seen frequently around the area.
After a witness said he'd seen the suspect at a liquor store in Old Town, across 192, detectives surveilled that area, they identified Onque walking to the store from a nearby Burger King and arrested her. In an interview, she confessed to the burglaries.
Additional charges will be forthcoming related to additional area burglaries, the Sheriff's Office said.
