MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — A New York City woman is facing two felony charges in South Florida after authorities said she kicked a sheriff’s deputy escorting her off a flight at Miami International Airport on Wednesday.
Deputies said they were escorting Jamie Romanski, 49, of Astoria, Queens, off an American Airlines flight at around 6:30 p.m. after “she had a verbal argument with the flight crew.”
According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, airline employees said Romanski “seemed intoxicated” at the time and that they had planned on rebooking her.
Authorities said as an MDSO deputy approached Romanski and tried to calm her down, she smacked her hand away. The deputy then told her she was under arrest and cuffed her.
The report states that as the deputy was escorting her off the jet bridge, Romanski “stopped and heel-kicked her left thigh three times,” causing the deputy to “move back away in pain.”
After being taken to the MDSO station within MIA, a deputy wrote that he “was unable to interview (Romanski) due to the fact she was very irate and refused to speak to me.”
Romanski is now facing charges of battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest with violence.
As of Thursday, she was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $2,500 bond.
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