Listen: Mom makes 911 call after finding Clay County inmate allegedly posing as her daughter

CLAY COUNTY, Fla. — A call to 911 from a local mom reveal the moments she found out someone was allegedly impersonating her daughter to escape the Clay County Jail.

“I bonded my daughter out of jail and she is missing,” mom Mary Jo Purvis told a Clay County 911 operator in the call, “This [suspect] has got [my daughter’s] clothes, her boots, her jacket and everything and she’s telling me my daughter is in the hospital. I need someone up here, because she is trying to run."

Purvis said she saw Jessica Arnott walking down the street in Green Cove Springs wearing her daughter’s clothes.  Purvis’ daughter, Jessica Davis, bonded out of jail and was set to be released but wasn’t. Davis has since been released.

The accused imposter, Arnott, was originally locked up after being accused of attacking someone with a dull machete. Arnott is back in jail on a new escape charge after deputies say she posed as Davis, and signed Davis' bond paperwork as Davis to get out of jail for roughly 90 minutes.

New details outlined in Arnott’s latest arrest report reveals a deputy did claim Arnott was one of eight women bonding out the same day as Davis. But a sheriff’s office spokesperson said Arnott was not due to bond out then.

“You went up there right now to bond your daughter out, right?” a dispatcher asked Purvis in the 911 call.

“Yeah. I bonded [Davis] out, and they said they saw her bonded out, but this girl came out instead,” Purvis said in the call.

A Clay County Sheriff's Office spokesperson tells Action News Jax it could take up to 180 days to investigate how this incident happened. That spokesperson said jail policy has not changed since this incident, but changes could be put in place once the investigation wraps up.

LISTEN TO THE CALL BELOW:

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