DORAL, Fla. — Surveillance video released on Friday shows a 54-year-old woman who arrived at Doral City Hall wielding a large knife, according to the Doral Police Department.
Laura Cabrera started “striking the glass door in a stabbing motion” and pulled the door handle, but the building was closed, according to a police officer’s arrest report.
Cabrera, who lives in Doral, also stopped at the Doral Cultural Arts Center and was “pacing back and forth ... became irate and began yelling,” according to the report.
Cabrera was not armed when officers detained her, and she said she “was hearing voices in her head, that they were after her and blamed” the city’s mayor for her problems, according to police.
While at the police station, she “began smacking her hands on the table and then used her handcuffs to strike herself in the face,” so Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded.
Fire rescue personnel decided she needed medical attention at the hospital, but after she was discharged, police officers took her to the Turner Guilford Knights Correctional Center on Saturday night.
Court records show prosecutors filed two cases against Cabrera on Thursday. One case was for two felony counts of criminal mischief valued at more than $1,000.
The second case was for criminal mischief valued at more than $1,000 and four misdemeanors: Assault, resisting arrest, and two counts of criminal mischief valued at more than $200.
Inmate records show Cabrera remained at TGKCC on Friday night. Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Cristina Miranda was set to preside over both pending cases.
Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report.
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