Painful moment neighbour jokes 'they're here to arrest you' before woman arrested for kidnapping

As police approached a woman suspected of kidnapping her own daughter bodycam footage caught the moment her neighbour joked 'they're here to arrest you'.

In 1983, when she was a toddler, Michelle Newton moved to Georgia with her mother Debra, who had told her husband Joseph she was starting a new job and was travelling ahead to 'prepare a new home for the family'.

However, when Joseph arrived he couldn't find his wife or daughter and they were officially reported missing, with Debra ending up on the top eight of the FBI's most wanted parental-kidnapping fugitives.

The case was eventually dropped in 2000 and five years later Michelle was removed from missing child databases, but the case was reopened in 2016 which ultimately led to a crimestoppers tip that eventually led the police to a woman in Florida going by the name 'Sharon'.

When officers approached her to make an arrest, she was standing with a neighbour who joked 'they're coming for you, Sharon' before realising how serious they were.

In bodycam footage of the arrest Sharon and her neighbour could be seen standing together as the neighbour spotted the police and shouted: "Uh oh! Uh oh! They're coming for you."

While the neighbour laughed about the idea that the officers might be coming to arrest her friend, it very quickly became clear they actually were coming to do that.

"Uh oh, they're coming for you Sharon!" the neighbour joked again, while the woman about to be arrested said 'they want Reggie' and asked the officers 'what's up', with them telling her 'we're here for you, ma'am'.

The officers informed her they had a warrant for her arrest and the neighbour insisted 'they have to be kidding', and at this point she was reassured that they very much weren't as it was suggested she ought to go home right about now.

She kept saying she didn't understand what she was being arrested for and insisted 'I didn't do anything'.

The woman was arrested right after her neighbour joked 'they're here to arrest you', it turns out they were (Marion County Sheriff's Department)

Authorities claim that DNA testing with Debra's sister produced a '99.9 percent match' with this woman who was extradited to Kentucky where she faces a long time in prison if convicted of kidnapping.

Michelle, who had not even known she was missing, has since been reunited with her dad and also says she plans to support both of her parents.

She said: "My intention is to support them both through this and try to navigate and help them both wrap it up so that we can all heal, and hopefully there's just apologies and [we could] start healing."