A former Miami Seashore fee candidate has been arrested and booked into Miami-Dade jail on Wednesday, going through a cost of home violence battery, in accordance with official data.
Reviews are hat on Wednesday, Marcella Novela, 45, was arrested alongside together with her husband, Ricardo Dunin Borkowsky, a 64-year-old Miami actual property government.
He was arrested on a home violence battery cost stemming from the identical incident.
Alcohol allegations and clashing accounts
Based on the incident report, regulation enforcement officers instantly seen a “sturdy odor of alcohol” emanating from Marcella Novela’s breath.
In her account of the occasions, Novela asserted that she was the sufferer of an assault by her husband inside the confines of their residence.
She claimed that Borkowsky had seized her by the throat and forcefully pushed her right into a dresser, all following a heated argument.
In response to those allegations, Borkowsky knowledgeable the police that he had acted as a result of Novela had struck him within the head with a closed fist.
A chaotic encounter unfolds
The chaotic episode continued as Novela narrated that her husband had subsequently thrown her onto their mattress earlier than exiting the residence and venturing onto the pool deck.
She additionally disclosed that she had retaliated by pushing Borkowsky into the pool.
Accidents evident on each events
The incident report detailed the bodily toll of the altercation, with each Novela and Borkowsky displaying accidents.
Novela exhibited a conspicuous purple mark on her neck, whereas Borkowsky bore a small laceration on his temple.
In gentle of those circumstances, each events had been positioned below arrest.
Bail granted for former fee candidate and partner
Jail data revealed that Marcella Novela and Ricardo Dunin Borkowsky had been every granted a $1,000 bond.
Novela, recognized not solely as a former fee candidate but in addition as an activist, holds the place of Chair of Artwork in Public Locations for the Metropolis of Miami Seashore.
An electoral slim miss
Novela narrowly misplaced the Nov. 7 election for Miami Seashore’s Group 6 fee seat to Miami Seashore Planning Board member Joe Journal by lower than 70 votes, out of a complete of greater than 12,900 forged.
