Miami – An Orlando judge issued an arrest warrant on Wednesday against the woman who, after an altercation at the airport in that city last February, fled from a police officer through the terminal in a “motorized” suitcase and confronted the be detained, local media reported.
Chelsea Alston, 32, a resident of New Jersey, did not appear in court in Orlando for her trial for the serious crimes of “assault on a law enforcement officer and criminal conduct,” so the judge in charge of the case decided to issue an arrest warrant.
The shocking scene was known through a viral video recorded by the uniformed camera in which the woman is seen riding away on her luggage after she was denied access to the plane for apparently being drunk.
“We’re going to have a bike chasing a suitcase in a minute,” the police officer is heard saying in the video, who was surprised at the speed the woman was reaching on the suitcase: “Oh man, that thing goes fast.” , said.
And all while the laughter of the passengers sitting waiting for the departure of their flight can be heard at the curious situation that they were witnessing.
The officer finally found Alston in one of the Orlando International Airport train cars and tried to reason with her, but seeing that the woman did not come to her senses and that she even spit on him, as seen in the video, he opted for stop her.
Shortly before, the Orlando policeman, named Andrew Mamone, had recommended that she go back to the terminal, “recover a little sobriety” and get another flight to New York, the destination of her trip, but the woman ended up in detention.
According to court documents to which the local media outlet Click Orlando had access, Alston was accused of beating the police officer and causing damage to the patrol car worth close to $1,200, and, if found guilty, she could face a sentence. maximum of five years in prison for each of these two crimes.