MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — An 18-year-old woman was arrested after authorities say she allegedly struck a Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office sergeant and resisted arrest during a traffic stop on Thursday.
According to an arrest report, deputies were “conducting an illegal handicap parking enforcement” at about 7 p.m. in the 10100 block of West Flagler Street in Miami-Dade’s Fontainebleau area when they spotted a red Mazda parked in a designated disabled parking space with a disabled parking permit displayed.
After checking the vehicle’s registration, deputies spoke with the four female occupants and began investigating the use of the disabled parking permit, the report states. Deputies said the driver was later cited on a charge of fraudulent or unauthorized use of a disabled parking permit.
As the driver was instructed to approach a marked patrol vehicle to review and sign the citation, Jaley Rivalta, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, allegedly approached the sergeant and began arguing about the citation, according to the report.
The report states Rivalta ignored the sergeant’s orders to return to the vehicle and continued interfering with the traffic stop.
During the confrontation, Rivalta intentionally struck the sergeant’s hand, according to the report. Deputies said the sergeant then attempted to take her into custody.
Rivalta allegedly resisted by pulling her arms away, tensing her body and refusing repeated commands to stop resisting and place her hands behind her back, according to the report.
She also continued using “physical force” against the sergeant before he arrested her, the report states.
Jail records show Rivalta is facing one count each of battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting an officer with violence and approaching a first responder after warning or impeding a first responder.
As of Friday morning, she was being held on a $2,750 bond at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
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