Texas woman sues Florida deputy and county over mistaken identity arrest
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Jennifer Heath Box did not understand why she was being handcuffed and arrested when she was coming off a seven-night Royal Caribbean cruise at Port Everglades on Christmas Eve 2022. Law enforcement officials tried to explain that they had a warrant for her arrest on charges of child endangerment. The photo attached to the warrant was taken from Heath Box’s driver’s license. But the rest of the information on the warrant pointed to a different woman with a similar name: Jennifer Delcarmen Heath. “I was feeling everything from confusion to frustration, anger, because I knew this was impossible,” said Heath Box, whose daughters at the time were 30 and 18 and whose son was 20, a U.
S. Marine three days from being deployed to Japan.