The American girl who was final week caught on digital camera stripping bare and being restrained by safety officers on the Sangster International Airport (SIA) in Montego Bay, Jamaica, was fined a mixed complete of $52,000 when she appeared in court docket on Monday.
The girl, whose identification has not been disclosed however who is alleged to be a dentist, pleaded responsible to the costs of resisting arrest, indecent publicity, and disorderly conduct.
Throughout Monday’s court docket proceedings, the lady’s lawyer, Mark Williams, knowledgeable the court docket that his shopper’s household struggles with psychological well being points.
“She, herself, has all the time been a high-functioning particular person, and one who has functioned on the highest degree in her occupation. However it seems as if she had a psychotic episode that morning,” the lawyer mentioned.
He additionally advised the court docket that his shopper is on nervousness medicine.
Presiding decide Kaysha Grant-Pryce subsequently ordered the defendant to pay a tremendous of $50,000 or spend 20 days in jail for resisting arrest, $1,000 or 5 days in jail for indecent publicity, and $1,000 or 5 days in jail for disorderly conduct.
Airport incident and viral video
In response to police stories, on January 23, at about 11:00 am, the lady was within the departure terminal on the SIA, getting ready to board a United Airways flight to Las Vegas, when she started behaving in a loud and boisterous method as she and one other girl bought right into a confrontation.
The girl then went on to hurl expletives at safety officers who tried to intervene, escalating to her stripping off her clothes and getting right into a bodily altercation with an officer who tried to restrain her.
After a number of minutes of intense confrontation, the lady was ultimately restrained and escorted to the Cornwall Regional Hospital the place she acquired medical consideration. She was subsequently arrested and charged for her actions on the airport.
Following the incident, a three-minute-long viral video emerged on social media displaying the lady’s actions on the airport. Within the video, she is seen and heard hurling expletives, eradicating her garments and throwing them at onlookers, and resisting officers’ makes an attempt to restrain her.
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