MIAMI – A 21-year-old Miami woman is facing multiple felony charges after she allegedly smashed several vehicles with a baseball bat, struck her boyfriend, and left a non-verbal child alone in a parked car early Tuesday morning, according to Miami police.
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Jail records show Antoneisha Fail was arrested Tuesday and faces three counts of felony criminal mischief of $1,000 or more, along with one count each of child neglect without great bodily harm, aggravated battery and resisting an officer without violence.
Miami police said officers responded just before 5 a.m. to the area in the 1800 block of Northwest Fifth Place after multiple victims reported that their vehicles had been vandalized.
Authorities said the three victims - who were all relatives of Fail’s boyfriend – told officers that they saw her smashing car windows and mirrors with a bat.
They said one of the victims, who was alerted by her nephew, stepped outside and found her front and rear windows shattered and side mirrors damaged.
A second victim reported her windshield and passenger-side mirror were also broken. A third woman said she walked outside at 4:47 a.m. and saw Fail striking her vehicle with a bat and then fleeing the scene, according to police.
According to Fall’s arrest report, Ring camera video showed her damaging cars and striking a fourth victim, her boyfriend, with a bat.
Police said Fail and her boyfriend have been in a relationship for seven years and share two children, police said.
While officers were still at the scene filing the report, Fail reportedly returned and tried to fight one of the women again.
As an officer attempted to take her into custody, police said Fail pulled away and continued to lunge toward the victim. Additional officers were dispatched in emergency mode to help subdue her.
Once placed in a patrol vehicle, they said Fail began yelling about her boyfriend’s child — a non-verbal boy — who was later found alone inside a parked car a block away from the scene.
Police said they located the vehicle around 6:14 a.m. in front of a home near the 1800 block of Northwest Fifth Place. A family member found the child but refused to cooperate further with the investigation, the report stated.
The suspect’s boyfriend, who had previously refused to provide a statement about the bat incident, told another officer that Fail “caught him cheating” and denied any abuse, police wrote.
He later accepted custody of the child after the Department of Children and Families was contacted, investigators said.
Police noted that all three female victims are relatives of Fail’s boyfriend and have had prior issues with her.
One of the victims also had video showing Fail banging on her door and walking around with the bat in hand, according to authorities.
Detectives have not released a motive for the alleged crimes.
As of Wednesday, Fail is being held on a $3,951 bond at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
