{"id":331367,"date":"2026-07-07T01:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T01:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331367\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T01:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T01:17:09","slug":"florida-keys-woman-jailed-after-threatening-deputies-with-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331367\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Keys woman jailed after threatening deputies with knife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 6, 2026 at 8:17 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/YQK2J6JRZFHOBCXAKYJDYCORCQ.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Mugshot for Jennifer Lynn Secrest. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MARATHON, Fla.  \u2014 A Florida Keys woman is behind bars after allegedly threatening deputies with a knife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The incident occurred around 4:28 p.m. Monday in the area of U.S. 1 and Sombrero Beach Road in Marathon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the Monroe County Sheriff\u2019s Office, deputies responded to the scene after receiving reports of a woman with a knife harassing a man. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Upon arrival, deputies said the suspect, identified as Jennifer Lynn Secrest, 35, \u201cpulled out the knife and began waiving it around while threatening them,\u201d according to MCSO. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said they were eventually able to separate Secrest from the knife and took her into custody. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She is facing two felony charges of aggravated assault with a weapon and a felony charge of resisting arrest in addition to three misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest as well as a charge of disorderly intoxication. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No injuries were reported in the incident. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"David Dwork\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3469fa6e-3c52-46d2-a0.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>David Dwork<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">David Dwork joined the WPLG Local 10 News team in August 2019. Born and raised in Miami-Dade County, David has covered South Florida sports since 2007. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 6, 2026 at 8:17 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandMugshot for Jennifer Lynn Secrest. MARATHON, Fla. \u2014 A Florida Keys woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-331367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}