We have an update from the man who created a GoFundMe campaign to assist Jaykie Funez-Andrade as the Harrisonburg woman fights her detention by federal agents after a traffic stop on Monday.
Chad Orellana reports that Funez-Andrade has been released on bail after an appearance in federal court in Charlottesville on Friday morning.
Online reports have it that Funez-Andrade was detained on a federal resisting-arrest charge stemming from the traffic stop, which was initiated by federal officers around 10:30 a.m. Monday morning, as she was driving her 16-year-old daughter, Kryziee Carrasco, to school.
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Carrasco filmed the traffic stop from inside her mother’s vehicle, so we can’t hear what is transpiring as the lead officer questions Funez-Andrade.
According to the teen, 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, and then was “accused of forging the IDs and documents.”
She was then asked to recite her Social Security number, and 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.
We’ve been unable to independently verify the status of her case through the federal court system. Because of the ongoing federal government shutdown, the online court system is glitchy, and we are not able to resolve the issue with accessing court records.
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