Florida deputies arrested a woman living under an assumed identity in November 2025, after determining she was wanted in a decades-old Kentucky parental kidnapping case, a development that stunned her neighbors and went viral the next month when body-cam footage of the encounter was released.
According to Florida news outlet WFTV, law enforcement took 66-year-old Debra Newton into custody on November 24, 2025, in The Villages, a sprawling retirement community in Marion County, where she had been living as “Sharon Nealy.” Deputies executed a long-outstanding warrant for custodial interference linked to the disappearance of her daughter in 1983 after authorities received a Crime Stoppers tip that led them to her Florida residence.
Body-camera footage released by the Marion County Sheriff’s Office captures the moment deputies arrive at Newton’s house. In the video, two older women are chatting outdoors when patrol cars pull up. One neighbor jokes, “They’re coming for you, Sharon,” before deputies confirm they are there to arrest Newton. A deputy can be heard saying, “We’re here for you, ma’am. Definitely here for you.”
