Three women are facing criminal charges after officials said they refused to pay for extra carry-on bags, sparking their arrest and a nearly hour-long flight delay at the Miami International Airport.
Nafisa Dockery, 30, Dionjana Cochran, 21, and Davana Cochran, 26, were escorted off a Frontier Airlines plane and arrested on Monday, March 30, an arrest warrant shows.
All three woman are charged with trespassing on property after a warning and resisting an officer without violence. Dockery was also charged with battery, after authorities said she allegedly spit on someone during the incident.
According to the affidavit obtained by USA TODAY, the women were boarding a flight to Philadelphia when a Frontier employee noticed they had only paid for one carry-on piece of luggage, but had two with them.
When the employee asked the trio to step aside and pay for their extra bag, a verbal confrontation began, the affidavit continues, and the employee told the women if they did not pay for their bags, they would not be permitted to board.
