{"id":185763,"date":"2026-03-10T15:23:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/185763\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:23:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:23:06","slug":"woman-jailed-after-atlanta-bound-flight-diverted-to-mia-over-midair-scuffle-cops-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/185763\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman jailed after Atlanta-bound flight diverted to MIA over midair scuffle, cops say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 An Alabama woman flying between San Juan and Atlanta now finds herself facing criminal charges in South Florida after authorities said she instigated a midair altercation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators with the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office said it all happened at around 4:45 p.m. Monday aboard a Frontier Airlines jet. The crew diverted the plane to Miami International Airport enroute to Atlanta because of the dispute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An MDSO arrest report states that the whole thing began when passenger Ebony Shyteria Harper, who turned 31 on Thursday, leaned on a passenger sitting in the last row as she queued to use the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said when the passenger asked Harper, of Opelika, Alabama, to \u201cmove her arm from his back,\u201d she then touched his face. After the man\u2019s wife asked her to stop touching her husband, she touched the man\u2019s wife, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the report, that led the man\u2019s wife to hit Harper and Harper to hit her back. Deputies said Harper then punched a woman \u201cnumerous times\u201d in the face as the woman tried to break up the dispute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">All of this led to the diversion and to Harper\u2019s arrest by MDSO deputies, the report states. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightaware.com\/live\/flight\/FFT2081\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.flightaware.com\/live\/flight\/FFT2081\">Public flight tracking data<\/a> shows the Airbus A321neo was on the ground at MIA for nearly three hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said the \u201cvictims did not have visible injuries\u201d and that \u201call passengers were denied traveling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies arrested Harper on charges of battery on a person 65 or older, a felony, and misdemeanor battery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Tuesday morning, she was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with a bond listed in online records as \u201cto be set.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News contacted Frontier seeking comment on the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 An Alabama woman flying between San Juan and Atlanta now finds herself facing criminal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-185763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}