{"id":34477,"date":"2025-07-03T05:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T05:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/34477\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T05:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T05:23:11","slug":"jacksonville-woman-faces-charges-for-trying-to-kidnap-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/34477\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville woman faces charges for trying to kidnap a child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A woman who witnessed a child being kidnapped at a Jacksonville intersection is speaking out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Police said the victim was selling water bottles on Edgewood Avenue and Moncrief Road with his mom\u2019s friend when 22-year-old Mikaya Williams grabbed him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/live-breaking\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>&gt;&gt;&gt; STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">According to the arrest report, Williams told the victim, \u201cYour mom said get in the car,\u201d and \u201cCome here, get in the car, I got your money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">The boy told police he had never seen the woman before. But police said Williams pushed him into the car and drove away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Shameika, who witnessed the whole situation, told Action News Jax that she supervises the children. And after she saw Williams grab the boy, she was quick to follow the car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><b>[DOWNLOAD: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a><b>]<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">\u201cShe took me on a high-speed chase,\u201d said Shameika. \u201cHe was in her back window. He was crying and pointing at my car like get me out of here. I don\u2019t know her. The whole time I\u2019m chasing her and trying to drive on the side of her, she was just like jamming in the car like dancing with the music loud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Shameika said that after several miles, the suspect stopped, and she was able to get the child out of the car. She was also able to block the car using her car and called the police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><b>[SIGN UP: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.actionnewsjax.com\/newsletters\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a><b>] <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">\u201cMy heart was beating so fast like I was just praying the whole time I was chasing her,\u201d said Shameika. \u201cI did what I had to do, and I am glad that I was able.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">Williams\u2019 bond is set at just over $150,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\">According to court records, she is scheduled to be arraigned on July 21st.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 jsuuLb body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Click here<\/b><\/a><b> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/mobile-apps\/\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>click here<\/b><\/a><b> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actionnewsjax.com\/video\/\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>click here<\/b><\/a><b> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A woman who witnessed a child being kidnapped at a Jacksonville intersection is speaking out.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[28504,12189,13822,13826,5229,13816,28505,28502,28497,3188,723,11561,7310,8423,425,28499,28498,28503,28500,28501,28496,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,2612,28495],"class_list":{"0":"post-34477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-42nd","9":"tag-action_news","10":"tag-alexis","11":"tag-alexis_clevinger","12":"tag-america","13":"tag-ben_becker","14":"tag-dodge","15":"tag-edgewood","16":"tag-edgewood_avenue","17":"tag-fl","18":"tag-florida","19":"tag-jack","20":"tag-jacksonville","21":"tag-jso","22":"tag-local","23":"tag-makaya_williams","24":"tag-moncrieff_road","25":"tag-moncrieffe","26":"tag-moncrieffe_road","27":"tag-shamika","28":"tag-tanika_hughes","29":"tag-united-states","30":"tag-united-states-of-america","31":"tag-unitedstates","32":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","33":"tag-us","34":"tag-usa","35":"tag-williams","36":"tag-ya_govino"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114787634821944142","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}