‘Humiliated’: Black Woman Wrongly Jailed for Three Days After Deputies Arrested Her Instead of White Suspect Solved Her Own Case to Get Out

‘Humiliated’: Black Woman Wrongly Jailed for Three Days After Deputies Arrested Her Instead of White Suspect Solved Her Own Case to Get Out

A 49-year-old Black woman was wrongly arrested in front of her grandson, charged with elder abuse and jailed for three days after deputy sheriffs in Georgia looking for a white suspect from Kentucky with a similar name erroneously took her into custody. Nickie Sledge was wrongly arrested in Canton, Georgia on Dec. 21, 2024 by Rockdale County Sheriff’s Deputies looking for a white woman from Kentucky named Nikki Sledge suspected of abusing an el…