Three women have been arrested after refusing to leave a plane without paying for their extra luggage.
At around 9:50 p.m. local time on Sunday, March 29, Nafisa Dockery, Davana Cochran, and Dionjana Cochran were checking onto Frontier Airlines flight F9-1204 to Philadelphia from Miami International Airport when a tense exchange ensued with a Frontier employee, according to arrest reports obtained by PEOPLE from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.
The employee explained to the trio that they had “only paid for one carry-on bag, but had two with them,” therefore, they would need to step out of line and pay for the extra luggage, per the arrest report. A “verbal altercation” then ensued, with the Frontier employee telling the women they would be removed from the flight if they did not pay for the extra bag.
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“We don’t have to listen, let’s just go,” Nafisa, 30, allegedly told Davana, 26, and Dionjana, 21, per the arrest report.
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Despite the frontier employee warning them that law enforcement would be notified if they tried to board the plane, the three women “rushed onto the aircraft” by going through a door “clearly marked restricted area, authorized personnel only.”
When deputies arrived, the frontier manager explained why the women’s boarding passes were being denied and requested they be removed from the plane, according to the arrest report.
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The women “refused to comply” when deputies told them they needed to leave the plane because their boarding passes were no longer valid. As they ignored “multiple warnings,” all passengers on the plane were made to deboard so deputies could carry out their arrest.
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.
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Nafisa allegedly spat on someone, believed to be a Frontier employee, per Local 10, as she was being taken off the plane.
A now-viral video shared on the Instagram account, Only in Dade, shows the women being escorted off the flight by deputies as travelers recorded on their phones.
“I will beat you the f–k up,” Davana can be heard shouting in the clip as an onlooker replies, “Enjoy prison, baby.”
The flight was delayed by over an hour due to the three women’s actions, according to the arrest report.
The trio was booked at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
They have since been charged with resisting an officer without violence to his person and trespassing on property/after warning. Nafisa has also been charged with battery.
A representative for Miami International Airport and Frontier Airlines did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for further comment on Tuesday, March 31.
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