MIAMI — Three women are accused of refusing to leave an aircraft after allegedly objecting to pay fees for extra carry-on bags at Miami International Airport on Sunday, authorities said.
According to Miami-Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation online booking site, deputies arrested Davana Kenya Cochran, 26; Nafisa Yasmeen Dockery, 30; and Dionjana Marlene Cochran, 21.
Davana Cochran and Diojana Cochran were each charged with trespassing on property after receiving a warning and resisting an officer without violence.
Dockery faced the same two charges but was also accused of battery, online records show.
The three women were attempting to board a Frontier flight from Miami to Philadelphia when they had a confrontation at the gate with an airline employee, WPLG reported.
Three women were arrested at Miami International Airport on Sunday after being accused of not paying for a second carry-on bag and refusing to leave a plane they boarded, authorities saidhttps://t.co/GDnyxIUS97
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According to an arrest report, the women had been asked to step out of line to pay for the extra bag. When they declined, the employee said they would be removed from the flight.
“We don’t have to listen; let’s just go,” Dockery allegedly told the Cochrans, according to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.
The trio bolted from the gate and went past a door that had been marked as restricted, WTVJ reported.
Deputies entering the aircraft told the women that they had to leave or they would be arrested for trespassing, according to the television station.
After “multiple” warnings, the women still refused to leave and were arrested, with their boarding passes canceled, WPLG reported.
According to the arrest report, there was a “brief struggle” between the three passengers and the deputies, People reported.
A “brief struggle” between the women and the deputies occurred before they were taken into custody as they “tensed their bodies and pulled their arms away” to avoid being put in handcuffs, according to the arrest report.
According to deputies, the incident caused the plane to be delayed for one hour, WTVJ reported.
Deputies said the flight was delayed for one hour due to their actions.
A video shared on the Only in Dade Instagram account shows the women escorted off the flight by deputies as other travelers recorded the incident on their cellphones, People reported.
“Enjoy prison, baby,” one onlooker can be heard saying as the women passed.
The women were booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, online records show.
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