MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — A woman arrested in 2024 after Hialeah police said she pushed her then-1-year-old daughter out of a car ― over spilled shampoo ― wound up back behind bars over the weekend.

This time, Tasshay Mills is accused of joining another woman in an “organized retail crime” scheme targeting Ulta Beauty locations in Miami-Dade and Broward counties.

Records show that Mills, 31, of Miami, was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Police arrested accused co-conspirator Jessica Lidia Duarte, 33, of northwest Miami-Dade, in January.

Authorities say their Miami-Dade charges stem from a Nov. 3, 2025 theft at the Ulta Beauty at 11751 S. Dixie Highway in Pinecrest.

Police said Mills, of Liberty City, and Duarte, who lives in the unincorporated Brownsville area, took “multiple bottles of assorted perfumes” worth nearly $3,000, put them in tote bags and left without paying.

Investigators said Mills and Duarte later targeted Ulta stores in Pembroke Pines, Davie, Fort Lauderdale and Deerfield Beach. Both women are now each facing a grand theft charge in Miami-Dade.

But for Mills, the case is adding to notable legal woes.

As of Monday, she still faced child abuse and neglect charges in connection with a case stemming from a Sept. 5, 2024 incident in Hialeah.

Police said Mills became angry at her 1-year-old daughter after she “spilled shampoo on the rear seat” of her vehicle, leading her to beat the toddler.

Authorities said the girl’s cries during the beating only further enraged Mills, then 29, even more. They said she pushed the little girl onto the road near Northwest 37th Avenue and 54th Street and drove off.

According to police, a woman and her boyfriend who were behind Mills at a red light helped rescue the toddler from the street. Police said as the good Samaritans were tending to the bleeding girl, Mills made a U-turn and snatched her daughter back and drove off, prompting a missing child alert.

Police later took Mills, listed in arrest documents as living in Opa-locka at the time, into custody in Miramar.

As for her latest case, Pinecrest police said they had been making “numerous” attempts to find her in Miami-Dade County. It’s not clear where authorities found her on Sunday, but since her return to TGK, Mills was being jailed on a $2,500 bond and on two outstanding warrants, one of which was from outside of Miami-Dade.

Meanwhile, jail records list Duarte as “not being held in a county facility.”

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