A mother who called the police on her son wound up arrested herself, with authorities calling her one of their “most wanted drug offenders.”
On Feb. 23, Jerneen Nicole Green, 51, made a frantic 911 call to report that her son Zjiavon Deaute Green, 31, was allegedly armed with a sword and threatening to kill her and others at their Stock Island home in the Florida Keys, according to a press release from the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department.
Jerneen told authorities, according to the release, that Zjiavon was drinking alcohol, damaging property and swinging a katana-style sword while making lethal threats.
An officer who listened to the 911 call, and who was quoted in an arrest report obtained by Oxygen.com, claimed that Zjiavon allegedly told the dispatcher something to the effect of, “If you come, you will die.” Meanwhile, per the report, Jerneen “could be heard crying and pleading with her son to put the sword down.”
Responding officers said Zjiavon “was speaking in tangents and appeared emotionally unstable,” per the report. Authorities noted that, according to Zjiavon, the incident started when he tried to hug his mother and she blocked him.
While Zjiavon admitted to police there was a sword involved though he denied threatening his mom or being physically violent.
“Due to his apparent intoxication and erratic demeanor,” police wrote in the report, “his responses were inconsistent and not credible.”
Zjiavon was arrested and charged with aggravated assault. He is being held at the Monroe County Jail and his arraignment date is scheduled for March 5. A spokesperson from the Monroe County court told Oxygen.com that Zjiavon has not yet been assigned a public defender.
The incident didn’t end there, though. Because Jerneen was arrested on multiple prior offenses, including trafficking cocaine and fentanyl, along with drug possession, according to the press release. In fact, in the press release, police described her as “one of Monroe County’s most wanted drug offenders.”
In April 2025, as part of an ongoing narcotics investigation, police searched Jerneen’s residence, read a probable cause report obtained by Oxygen.com, finding cocaine, fentanyl, MDMA, oxycodone, psychedelic mushrooms and unidentified pills.
Jerneen faces more than 24 charges, according to county jail records reviewed by Oxygen.com, and her arraignment date is not yet scheduled. A court spokesperson told Oxygen.com that Jerneen has not yet been assigned a public defender.
