JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In a press conference Friday afternoon, Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters announced the arrest of a woman accused of punching and biting an officer outside of an IDEA charter school on Tuesday.

Erika McGriff, 39, has been arrested on charges of battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting an officer with violence and operating a motor vehicle while having a revoked driver's license, all third-degree felonies and each punishable by up to five years in prison.

Additionally, McGriff has received multiple traffic citations, Waters said.

McGriff's arrest stems from a Tuesday, Oct. 7 incident outside the IDEA charter school, located at 1845 Bassett Rd.

McGriff, a parent of an IDEA student who Waters called a "habitual traffic offender with revoked Florida driving privi

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