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Little girl found alone in a North Miami Beach lobby back with family, police say

Police are asking for help in finding the family of a young girl who was found alone inside the lobby of an apartment building in North Miami Beach.
Police are asking for help in finding the family of a young girl who was found alone inside the lobby of an apartment building in North Miami Beach. North Miami Beach

UPDATE 9 a.m. 4/21/2021: Police say the little girl has been reunited with her mother and that the Florida Department of Children and Families will investigate the situation.

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Police are asking for help in finding the family of a young girl who was found alone inside the lobby of an apartment building in North Miami Beach.

She was found at 2150 NE 169th St., according to North Miami Beach police.

If you know the young girl or where her family is, call 305-949-5500.

This story was originally published April 21, 2021 at 7:58 AM.

Michelle Marchante
Miami Herald
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow.  Support my work with a digital subscription
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