Missing mother last seen at Orange County home raided by FBI

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Eyewitness News first reported Thursday that a home in east Orange County was raided by the FBI and Orange County deputies. Danny Hampton, Beth Farber, Frederick Dorr and James Dellafield, Jr. have been arrested on drug charges.

Channel 9’s Jeff Levkulich uncovered the home on Cleburne Road could be related to a missing mother of two, Tia Bonta. The 24-year-old was last seen July 31.

Deputies searched the property and the woods surrounding the home in August.

Bonta’s father said his daughter was known to go to the home often.

According to a 62-page federal arrest report, Bonta’s father said the day his daughter disappeared, she was picked up at the Days Inn on E. Colonial Drive and Alafaya Trial by a friend with the initials, “J.D.” Bonta was later dropped off at a home on Clebrune, the father said.

Authorities have not said if J.D. is Dellafield, the man arrested Thursday or his father, who is also named James Delalfield Jr.  However, the father has been named a person of interest in Bonta’s disappearance.

Eyewitness News asked the Orange County Sheriff’s Office about Bonta’s disappearance and the arrest of Dellafield. They said in a statement, “We do not discuss open and active investigations.”

Jamie Coppenhaver, a private investigator hired by Bonta's family to look into the missing mother of two has interviewed more than 60 people in the hopes to Tia Bonta.

"The main ingredient of those interviews is it always led back to Cleburne Drive," Coppenhaver said.

Coppenhaver said it's no secret that Bonta got mixed up with the wrong crowd, however he is hopeful by Thursday’s arrests.

"Hopefully they will be able to negotiate some deals behind the scenes and get those people to talk and help bring this to resolve with Tia Bonta,” Coppenhaver said.

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