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Miami woman with mental health issues missing from a care facility is found, cops say

WEDNESDAY MORNING UPDATE: Miami police say Yennyfer Rodriguez has been found and will be “reunited with her caregivers.”

Police say Yennyfer Rodriguez is a 35-year-old woman who lives at the MACtown intermediate care facility in Little Haiti and lives with intellectual disabilities, diabetes and depression.

What Miami police didn’t know about Rodriguez, as of Tuesday morning, is where she’d been since Monday. They asked for the public’s help finding her.

Yennyfer Rodriguez
Yennyfer Rodriguez Miami Police Department

This story was originally published October 19, 2021 at 8:05 AM.

David J. Neal
Miami Herald
Since 1989, David J. Neal’s domain at the Miami Herald has expanded to include writing about Panthers (NHL and FIU), Dolphins, old school animation, food safety, fraud, naughty lawyers, bad doctors and all manner of breaking news. He drinks coladas whole. He does not work Indianapolis 500 Race Day.
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