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In a dramatic turn of events at Miami International Airport, three women found themselves in handcuffs after allegedly refusing to pay for all their carry-on luggage and barging onto a plane. The incident involved Nafisa Dockery, Dionjana Cochran, and Davana Cochran, who are now facing charges of trespassing and resisting an officer without violence.
According to court documents, Nafisa also faces an additional charge of battery. All three women have entered pleas of not guilty as the legal proceedings begin to unfold. The altercation, which took place on March 29, caused a significant delay, holding up a Frontier Airlines flight to Philadelphia for over an hour.
As detailed in an arrest affidavit reviewed by Oxygen, the trouble began when a Frontier Airlines employee noticed that the women had not paid for all their carry-on bags. The group had only covered the cost for one out of two bags. Upon being asked to pay the outstanding fee, the situation quickly escalated into a verbal confrontation.
The affidavit reveals that the airline employee made several attempts to explain that failure to pay would result in removal from the flight. Despite these warnings, tensions rose, culminating in the women forcing their way onto the aircraft, leading to their subsequent arrest.
Nafisa, Dionjana and Davana allegedly began a verbal altercation, read the doc, and the employee reiterated that they needed to pay for the additional bag or they would be removed them from the flight.
“We don’t have to listen,” Nafisa allegedly told her friends, police wrote in the doc. “Let’s go.”
The employee then said they could not board and that police would be notified if they continued protesting.
One of the women allegedly responded, “Call law enforcement,” per the affidavit, before the group rushed onto the plane, bypassing a door marked “Restricted area, authorized personnel only.”
Police were called to the aircraft and Frontier staff told authorities that the women’s boarding passes were denied, read the document. Staff and police told the women they needed to exit the plane, but they allegedly refused multiple times, even when police stated they were issuing a trespass warning and the women could be arrested.
Finally, police informed the trio that they were under arrest, according to the affidavit, and requested that everyone deboard the plane. Nafisa, on her way out, police noted in the doc, allegedly spat on another woman.
Once inside the airport, deputies tried to handcuff Davana, Dionjana and Nafisa but they allegedly tensed their bodies and pulled their arms away, per the affidavit, before deputies could finally restrain them.
A video posted to TikTok and published by CBS Miami showed the women being escorted through the airport by authorities.
The women are scheduled to appear in court on April 22.
A spokesperson for the public defender’s office declined to comment when asked by Oxygen. A spokesperson for Frontier Airlines did not immediately return a request for comment from Oxygen.