A man in the Clay County jail was served a warrant Wednesday for attempted murder and human trafficking.
– A 29-year-old jail inmate in Clay County was served a warrant Wednesday for attempted murder and human trafficking charges out of Duval County. Zakariya Clarke has been in jail in Clay County since his arrest inThe arrest report for the most recent charges filed against him is a disturbing read. It describes Clarke trafficking multiple women after getting them addicted to drugs.
Now, he’s facing even longer prison time. The warrant Clarke was served with Wednesday includes three counts of human trafficking and an attempted murder charge. They stem from events in 2020. According to the arrest report, Clark would beat his victims for disrespecting him, not following rules or attempting to escape. He would pimp them into prostitution and would force victims to use fentanyl to control them.
In May 2020, Clarke pretended to be a customer of one of the victims who tried to escape. The report states that he and another man brutally beat her and Clarke stabbed her in the back. This was because she tried to leave and help another victim do the same. Clarke was positively ID’d on surveillance video from where the stabbing happened and from pictures., an organization advocating for survivors of human trafficking.“This case is a story we, unfortunately, have heard at Rethreaded over and over again and yet, every time, moves us to continue to provide a way for women to leave and have access everything they need to rebuild their lives.
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