Inset: Yirsi Machado Rivera (Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation). Background: The Opa-locka, Fla., area where the defendant is accused of throwing human waste on her neighbor (Google Maps).
A Florida woman has been arrested after police say she threw a container filled with her own feces at a neighbor.
Yirsi Machado Rivera, 50, is facing one count of burglary and one count of battery, Miami-Dade County court records show.
The alleged incident took place on Monday, Sept. 7, at the Royal Country Mobile Homes community on Northwest 200th Terrace in Opa-locka, a small city in the Miami metropolitan area.
According to a charging document obtained by Law&Crime, Rivera and the alleged victim live on opposite sides of a divided trailer.
On the day in question, Machado Rivera “began banging on the door” of her neighbor’s side, police said.
“The victim opened the door and the defendant began accusing the victim of having a sexual relationship with the defendant’s husband,” the complaint and arrest affidavit reads.
The altercation allegedly spiraled from there.
The defendant next “forced her way” into the neighbor’s home without permission, according to law enforcement. While inside the residence, she “began shoving the victim,” police said.
Then came an attack involving feces, authorities say.
“Before exiting the victim’s residence, the defendant subsequently threw a bucket containing human feces onto the victim,” the charging document reads. “The defendant then exited the victim’s residence.”
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After that, police officers arrived and took Machado Rivera into custody, according to the complaint. At a nearby police station, the defendant allegedly agreed to talk after hearing her Miranda rights.
During the interview, the defendant offered a different narrative, according to law enforcement.
To hear Machado Rivera tell it, she was simply “trying to get rid of a bucket of ‘caca’ that she was using due to her residence having a broken toilet,” according to the charging document.
The defendant said she and the victim had gotten into “a verbal dispute over the smell of the ‘caca’ and the problem it was causing.”
Machado Rivera also blamed her neighbor for the incident, police said.
“The defendant advised that the victim hit her over the head with a bat causing a laceration to her head,” the complaint goes on. “The defendant denied entering the victim’s residence and throwing ‘caca’ at the victim.”
But authorities disputed that account.
“The defendant stated to the witness that she pooped in a bucket to throw it in the victim’s face,” a note on the charging document reads.
Machado Rivera is detained in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, records show.
On Tuesday, Miami-Dade Bond Court Judge Mindy Glazer granted a request by prosecutors to hold the defendant in pretrial detention, according to a courtroom report by the Miami Herald.
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