Parents arrested in Baby Angelina's Broward death case

Broward County investigators arrested Samantha Feliz and Alejandro Leon Jr. on July 22, 2026, accusing the Hollywood parents in the death of their baby, Angelina. The child had not been seen alive since February 2025, a gap that now sits at the center of the case.

The arrests marked a major turn in a case that had been tied to Hollywood in Broward County and featured on the county and Hollywood pages. The headline detail is stark: Baby Angelina disappeared shortly after birth, then remained unaccounted for for more than a year before the criminal case moved forward.

That timeline makes the case more than a single prosecution. It raises the basic question of what authorities knew, when they knew it, and whether any warning signs were missed as the child remained out of sight. In cases like this, investigators typically have to reconstruct a sequence from medical records, interviews, and other documents that can show when a child was last confirmed alive and what happened after that point.

For Broward readers, the case also fits a troubling pattern of infant missing-person investigations that have surfaced locally. On July 24, 2025, Broward coverage noted an endangered missing baby who had not been seen since December, showing that questions about the safety of very young children and the response of family, medical, and law-enforcement systems have surfaced here before.

Baby Angelina’s case now sits at the intersection of child welfare and homicide investigation work. A disappearance shortly after birth can test every layer of the county’s protective network, from the first medical contacts to the point when officers begin trying to account for a baby’s absence. The long delay between the last sighting in February 2025 and the arrests in July 2026 is likely to be central as the case moves through the courts.

The arrests of Feliz and Leon also sharpen the stakes for prosecutors, defense attorneys, and child advocates in Broward County. The case is no longer only about a missing infant; it is now about how a baby vanished from view and how the system responded before the death accusations reached a courtroom.