District Court of Appeal of Florida April 12, 1994, No. 93-2274 (State v. C.S.)

JORGENSON, Judge.

The State of Florida appeals from an order dismissing a petition for delinquency for failure to file the petition within 45 days of taking C.S. into custody. For the following reasons, we reverse.

In the latter part of March and in early April of 1993, Metro Dade Police began investigating two cases in which C.S. was implicated. The first case (case I) involved an incident at C.