Convicted felon accused of pistol-whipping, kidnapping woman in Biscayne Gardens

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A 25-year-old pistillate is facing a drawstring of felony charges aft authorities accidental she pistol-whipped different pistillate unconscious and dragged her into an flat during a convulsive brushwood successful Biscayne Gardens implicit the weekend.

Jail records amusement Jaimaijai Mensie was arrested Saturday and is facing 4 counts of amerciable possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and 1 number each of kidnapping with a firearm, mendacious imprisonment with a deadly limb and aggravated artillery with a deadly weapon.

According to an apprehension study from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, the incidental unfolded astir 4:30 a.m. wrong a laundry country connected the 3rd level of an flat analyzable successful the 15000 artifact of Northwest Seventh Avenue.

The study stated that surveillance video reviewed by investigators showed Mensie pursuing the unfortunate into the laundry room, wherever the 2 appeared to argue.

Mensie past struck the unfortunate respective times with her hands earlier preventing her from leaving the room, investigators said.

Moments later, deputies said Mensie near and returned with a gun.

They said surveillance video showed her removing the mag and manipulating the descent earlier utilizing the weapon to onslaught the unfortunate aggregate times successful the caput and face, knocking her unconscious.

Detectives said Mensie past concealed the limb successful a achromatic cross-body container and dragged the unconscious pistillate on a walkway and into the victim’s ain apartment.

Deputies arrived soon aft and recovered some women wrong the apartment.

A witnesser told officers helium woke up to what helium thought were gunshots, according to the report.

Investigators said they aboriginal recovered a .380 caliber ammunition casing adjacent the laundry room, on with humor traces successful the hallway and laundry area.

Although nary 1 was shot, deputies said the unfortunate suffered a caput wounded and aboriginal told detectives she lone remembered waking up with a headache and could not callback the attack.

Mensie declined to talk with investigators, the study stated.

A transgression records cheque revealed that she is simply a convicted felon and is barred from possessing guns. Deputies said she is besides taxable to 5 progressive home unit injunctions.

With the victim’s consent, deputies said they searched the flat and discovered a achromatic Nike cross-body container hidden nether a bed.

Inside, they recovered a loaded achromatic semi-automatic firearm matching the 1 seen successful the surveillance footage. Investigators said the mag contained 2 rounds that matched the spent casing recovered astatine the scene.

Authorities impounded the grounds for forensic analysis.

Deputies person not disclosed the quality of the narration betwixt Mensie and the victim, and the motive for the alleged onslaught remains unclear astatine this time.

As of Monday, she was being held astatine the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, wherever her enslaved was listed arsenic “to beryllium set.”

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