Remains have been found. Were awaiting the News Conference from jacksonville, it should start at any moment and well bring it to you live, right here on wftv Eyewitness News at 4 00 a volusia man take a plea deal, including murder. John kidnapped and raped a pregnant woman last year, today, that charge was reduced to aggravated battery. Blaine tolleson was in court when he pleaded guilty to murdering another woman. Blaine, the deal means hell spend the next 24 years in prison. Reporter john would get out prison when he is in his 90s. The victim today felt as though that was a life sentence. Prosecutors say a plea agreement spared his surviving victims to go through a trial. He is 52, sentenced to spend the next 45 years in prison. Jennifer, prosecutors say he hes not going to ever hurt anybody again. And im pretty sure at 90 something years old, he wont hurt anybody else. Reporter last september, he hog tied her with zip ties in an rv, and said to do what he asked. She was six months preg nabt at the time pregnant at the time. I kept praying the whole time, and i dont know why what happened, but he let me go, and im grateful for it, i have a healthy baby, it changed my life. Reporter hes is also accused of raping a second woman in Daytona Beach but was not charged in that case. Finally hes going to prison for the rest of his life for doing that and he deserves it. Reporter he did plead ggs to lor ra, she was found dead along Central Parkway in deland last september. Not only for myself, and sheri, but for my friend laura. Reporter he was only a person of interest in that murder case, up until today. Today, prosecutors say they had dna evidence linking him to that crime. Were live here in Daytona Beach. An orlando teenager is waiting to find out if hell be able to bond out of jail, hes accused of trying to kill a police officer. His attorney demanded he be allowed to wait at home. Today, the officers wife, cried as the video was played in court. Then she testified about the possibility of getting bond. We fear for our safety if someone obviously is to go out and hurt a Law Enforcement officer, who fear who else that individual would hurt as well rrm judge wanted to review the a Court Spokesperson says that decision should come down tomorrow. A man who has been unconscious at Orlando Medical Center for two weeks. He was hit by a car when he walked into the traffic this sunday, the sunday after christmas. Channel 9s carla rea is live at the hospital. Reporter yeah, hospital officials even had Law Enforcement come here to his bedside, in the hospital, to get his fingerprints to see if they could find a match, and nothing. Just west of kirkman road along busy colonial trooif, a man stepped off of this median and right into the path of a nissan night of 2015. And no one knows who he is. At ormc, we have a young man, 20s. Hispanic decent who is unidentified. Reporter according to the troopers, the mavens in Critical Condition when he was taken to the hospital. Were told his clothes had to be cut off, but he no license or phone inside. Back near the crash site, today, no one we spoke with saw the incident. We obviously checked him for identification, we have had him Law Enforcement has come and fingerprinted him, and nothing has come up. Reporter during the initial crash report, when the man was pug president pulled from the center lane on colonial, investigators wrote that he was a regular drinker in the area. But in the two weeks since that crash, no one has called to check on him or report him missing. Theres just nothing else we can do at this point. So were asking for the publics help. The man appears to be asian or hispanic. 144 pounds and has short, spike ki hair, and a goatee. If you have a loved one who was who fits this description and you havent heard from him us, and see if this might be him. Reporter and that is the message that they want to get out this afternoon, if you have any information, youre asked to call Orlando Health with any information on who this person is, you probably noticed we dont have a picture of this man, ill tell you how federal privacy laws are even making this more difficult, coming up on Eyewitness News at 5 00. Reporting live, channel 9, Eyewitness News. A volunteer firefighter is sitting in jail. 27yearold travis pierce, started both fires, at what used to be the old links golf club. During the first week of january, and he was on parole for arson when he was arrested. Police say pierce was a volunteer firefighter in pennsylvania. One of the two men accused in a double Fatal Shooting is in jail on no bond. Accused of firstdegree murder chashlgs. Investigators say Anthony Dawson and mayo exchanged gunfire with street the morning of new years eve, two people were killed and a third was wounded. Police are still looking for owe. A passenger involved in a hitandrun crash that september five people to the hospital last night t. Two men ran from the scene of a sixcar pile up at obt and ocoee road. According to an arrest report, the car they crashed was full of cocaine and drug paraphernalia. Troopers arrested the 26yearold passenger on drug charges. He said he did not know who was driving the car. There is also no sign of the driver who deputies say hit a Volusia County mother at her daughters bus stop and can took off. In a parked van when a white car hit her in deltona that morning. Rojas told the neighbor the car jumped a curb and crashed into her. He got out of the car and ran. She didnt get to see him. Investigators confirmed the driver fled on foot and deputies helicopter could not track him or her down. The local Healthcare Options are about to expand signaturely for women. A new significantly for women. Opens in two weeks. How this new place will better care for women across central florida. Women need continued access to fwraet care. Reporter at todays ribbon cutting, hospital administrators listed off the vast number of services that will be available. On stek rit. Reporter it offers the first clinic for women battling post part m depression. To meet the changing needs of women in central florida, hospital administrators serving were going to leave the story and take you to jacksonville, where a big News Conference is l foing now, l foing breaking following many, many areas of our community, we had at times, 425 people searching on a daily basis during this time. We were looking for lonzie. 38 agencies represented from all over the southeast, really. That came to help us. To do that. We scaled back that large scale search, on august 2nd. Of last year. But i want to make the point today that our Investigative Team continued to work this case. And have worked it for the last 142 days, nonstop. We are here today to tell you that we strongly believe that we have found the remains of Lonzie Barton in a wooded area nearby here. With that, im going to turn it over for Additional Details to chief tom hackney. Tom. Thanks. You know, sheriff williams outlined our investigative efforts have been ongoing since day one that i stood up and and asked for the publics help. Many a sleepless nights have gone on from the investigators in the case to the state attorneys involved with this. To members of the public, and our goal from the beginning, was to find lonzie. Unfortunately, it turned pretty obvious pretty quickly that that wasnt going to happen with him being alived. But that didnt stop our efforts. And didnt stop the interest of the public. It is a very sad day that we find these remains that we believe to be lonzies. But its the first step in justice, i mentioned several times, that that little boy didnt need to be discarded like a piece of trash, and today, we are able to take what we believe to be him, from being disposed just like that, in the hopes in somewhere thats peaceful, and not somewhere that is basically a garbage heap and thats just wrong. It is this case isnt over. You know, weve got a lot of steps, theres a lot of legalities, le gal tis about how we got legalities about how we got out here. We have worked with ruben ebron and his attorneys every step of the way and again, specifics, as we discussed this, many times, ive not been able to give you specifics. And the lack of my specificity is because i dont want to jeopardize the judicial process of this case. Justice is sometimes slow. And sometimes piece by piece. And today is just another piece of the justice that we have. Finding the bodies of very, very large piece of that, this community, i can tell you, from comments that i have received, this family, this family of this community, is really lonzies family. And they love him. The Investigative Team, i can tell you, they take it with them to bed every night. To days todays action rs todays recoverys and what led us here is a piece of that justice. I can certainly let you know that our erts efforts arent through, today is not the end, today is another step. Its most important that this community is aware that the efforts, the investigative efforts, the decisions that were made in this case, by the Sheriffs Office and working with the state attorneys office, were the goal of taking that child from places unknown today to a specific place, and from that specific place, to a location of peace. That our efforts will still thank you. You know, we have a great, really, working relationship here in northeast with the state, local and federal partners and we have a great daytoday working relationship with our state attorney, who hooz been a big has been a thank you, sheriff. Good afternoon, and can thank you for being here. And thank you for being here. And the Justice Coalition thank you for being around to help us represent our victims. Working with Law Enforcement is critical and thats why this case illustrates it better than possibly any other case that weve dealt with lately. If you cannot work with the Law Enforcement, you cannot attempt to seek justice as it should be on a case by case basis, so thats been the parameters of this case. Working with Law Enforcement from the beginning, working to paramount importance to us, and as tom just said, this is one piece in an ongoing quest for justice youve been listening to a live thuz conference from News Conference of the remains believed to be Lonzie Barton who disappeared last summer. Ruben ebron is the key suspect in this disappearance, there were reports earlier that he had taken a plea deal in this case. And that led to the finding of the remain, but now it appears that that plea deal is off the table. Well stay on top of this. Lonzie bartons remains have been found. A sad piece of the story, but at least as one person said today, the family and the entire community now, knows that he can rest in peace, as they continue to piece youre watching channel 9 Eyewitness News at 4 00 with greg warmoth, Vanessa Echols and chief meteorologist tom terry ft new this hour, an expensive weekend for more than a dozen orlando Business Owners who say their shops were vandalized. Police dont know who did it and why. Roy ramos spoke with several of the Business Owners today, and roy, you saw the damage firsthand throughout the weekend, and decided to look into it today. Reporter greg, it started when i woke up saturday and saw the businesses boarded up just like this. Businesses that had gone through the same type of incidents, and its Business Owners that now want those vandal ls caught. Business after business, along Colonial Drive and throughout downtown orlando are now covered in plywood. Orlando police say vandals drove throughout town over the weekend, shooting out windows. The owner of the gym downtown, rocky, showed me these pictures of three of his windows shot out early saturday morning. Probably about 3,000. Yeah, easily. Reporter according to reports, i obtained from the police, more than a dozen businesses along Colonial Drive were damaged. This pile of glass is what one Business Owner walked into early this morning and it didnt stop there. When he looked across the street, he saw that business had its windows broken out, right next door t the same thing, and Orlando Police say this is a part of a dozen businesses to be vandalized this past weekend. Looked like a glass grenade. Grass probably 20 feet in and 20 feet out. Reporter Business Owners i spoke with told me the repairs cost thousands of dollars and owners to close their doors, while the repairs were being made. So we had the loss of business on our busiest day of the week, and on top of that, the extend tur of the 56,000 to replace the windows. Reporter they are fortunate nothing was take frn the stores. Right now, i am working to find out what clues the police have to tracking down the vandals. In orlando, roy ramos, channel 9, Eyewitness News. And you can share this story to help the police with their investigation. Go to facebook. Com wftv. Now, for weeks, weve been woorning you about the warning you about the dangerous tornadoes that el nino could bring you this winter. Fort meyers, saturday night, tornadoes damaged hundreds of homes, thousands of residents in cape coral, still do not have power. From the 132 mile an hour tornado that struck saturday night. More than 150 homes damaged, damage, quote, unbelievable. See these things impaled in the pretty scary. And it broke all of the windows. If somebody had been inside, it would have had to have killed them. So surprising, maybe everyone survived the storm and three people suffered minor injuries, look at the def administration from this done devastation from this done. Thats right, you noticed, those are regular homes, block homes, everything is up to Building Code down there. Survived much better in a high end ef2. 30 mile an hour lower wind speeds than the one that nit 07. They that hit in 07. It killed 21 people that lived in mobile homes thchlt is why we talk so much about el nino, it is set ups like this, well be watching later this week as well. 53 in daytona. But the skies 60 in orlando, thats our high so far today. And downtown. And with the coldest air of the season, were still going to be in the lower 40ss in downtown tonight, no risk of a freeze for metro orlando, we dont have to scramble out and bring in the plants and cover them p up. But if you are up in Marion County, make sure that the pets have a warm place tonight. 35 at midnight. 29 at 6 00 a. M. Thats why that freeze warning is in effect. Probably 45 hours around Marion County today. Freeze warning along the western zones and also towards the palm coast area. The freeze area will be just inland from palm coast. Back through extreme northern parts of volusia and Marion County, lake county, and sweep all the way down north of the villages and back in toward the western zones, so thats where the freeze area will be tonight. But the dew points are high enough, theres enough moisture in the air, and you dont have to have frost to forms, leesburg back to apopka, mount plymouth, back towards the northern sections of Volusia County, well get areas of frost, including from leesburg, aster, youll wake up in the morning, see it on the roof trops. 44 this morning, 38 in sanford. 35, really have to get to about the mid 30 point to get that frost formation to develop. 40 for winter haven tonight. 40 for st. Cloud. Frost free toward the coast. In the 60s, where we were today, add 34 degrees. Still a nice day. And starting to warm back up. As far as future track shows us, mostly clear sky, giving us the cold weather for tonight and a nice day for tomorrow. Sunshine, lust like that, we are just like that, we are in this el nino pattern, another storm system on the way. Wednesday dry. Late thursday and friday morning, were going to watching storm gets in the gulf of mexico. At least a 5060 rain chance with thunderstorms. Could be late thursday night, early friday time frame, as we start to warm back up, before yet another front rolls in late this weekend. So coming up in the next half hour, r more on the next system and how long it will be below freezing in the northern zones tonight. A red light camera opponent is warning that drivers could be shortchanged. Coming up, we ask if drivers who got tickets could be getting a refubd. Then, one of the holiday seasons hottest gifts isnt allowed. Next, why you cant use hoverboards on parts of campus. And all new at 5 00, drones are helping wildlife trappers track coyotes in Brevard County. Were looking for any type of den, that they could be living in. The ucf campus is open to plenty of ideas, but one thing that the officials are not accepts is hoverboards. A closer look at where these hoverboards cant go and why. Reporter among the bikes and walkers. Its all in our ankle ls, really. I can see how people use this as an every day walking tool because its really fast and you can control it really well. Reporter but soon, where he can use it will be restricted. Ucf is banning hoverboards from on campus housing. I was a little upset about boards, its the same concept. Reporter its not, because skate boards dont do this. In a notes to students, the university cited recent hoverboard fires and an Ongoing Investigation into their safety,