We’re trying to track down what the official types have to tell us about the Monday morning arrest of a Harrisonburg woman, who was hauled off to the Rockingham/Harrisonburg Regional Jail by officers who stopped her car just outside the city limits in Rockingham County as she was driving her 16-year-old daughter to school.
The woman, Jaykie Funez-Andrade, has been in the country for more than 20 years, according to her teen daughter, Kryziee Carrasco, in a post on Facebook that includes anger-inducing footage of the traffic stop.
“I’ve only received two phone calls from her in the span of almost 48 hours. She wants this heard,” Carrasco wrote in the Facebook post. “This is something I never expected I would have to go through, and there wasn’t any way to prepare myself to go through it. I just want my mom to come home. She’s not a criminal.”
But she does have brown skin, which we can presume was why officers initiated a traffic stop around 10 a.m. Monday morning, according to a timeline provided by Carrasco.
In the video the teen posted online, you can see Funez-Andrade talking with an officer wearing a vest emblazoned with the word POLICE.
According to her daughter, the officer had asked Funez-Andrade to step out of her car “multiple times” without giving a reason why.
She produced her ID, work permit and vehicle registration, according to a second account of the arrest, posted on a GoFundMe created to help with legal fees, which reports that Funez-Andrade was “accused of forging the IDs and documents.”
Funez-Andrade was then asked to recite her Social Security number. When she failed to do so correctly, the reason for the failure, according to her daughter, being that her mother “recently got her SSN card and didn’t memorize the numbers to it,” the officer who had engaged Funez-Andrade in conversation made a quick move to apprehend her.
As you can see in the video, the unidentified officer threw her to the ground, and a second officer hovered over the scene, and directed Carrasco to keep a distance.
The teen asked to get the keys to her mother’s car from the lead officer, telling him that her aunt was on her way to pick her up.
“And then they took off, leaving me on the side of the road alone,” the teen wrote in her Facebook post. “After seeing the car take off with my mother inside as a 16-year-old. I sat on the side of the road for 10 minutes crying, angry, feeling guilty, and hopeless as I waited on my family members to reach me.”
I ran Funez-Andrade’s name through the online state court information website, and did not find any record of a pending charge against her related to this arrest, now more than 48 hours after she was taken into custody.
Per the account posted on the GoFundMe page, she is being held “as a courtesy to ICE.”
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