{"id":187722,"date":"2026-03-11T20:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/187722\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T20:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:43:09","slug":"woman-throws-gatorade-in-assistant-principals-face-at-miami-dade-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/187722\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman throws Gatorade in assistant principal\u2019s face at Miami-Dade school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI GARDENS, Fla.  \u2014 A woman was arrested Tuesday by Miami-Dade Schools Police after she threw Gatorade in the face of an assistant principal, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/03\/11\/policia-mujer-lanza-gatorade-al-rostro-de-subdirectora-en-escuela-de-miami-dade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/03\/11\/policia-mujer-lanza-gatorade-al-rostro-de-subdirectora-en-escuela-de-miami-dade\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to an arrest report obtained Wednesday by Local 10 News, the incident occurred just before 4 p.m. Tuesday at Norland Middle School in Miami Gardens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Tiffany Hayes, an assistant principal at the school, told officers that she was standing at her post outside the school\u2019s main entrance during dismissal when she saw Diliana Quintana Avila walking quickly toward her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Hayes walked up to Quintana Avila, 40, of Doral, and asked her \u201cHow can I help you? Parents are not allowed in the building after 3:20 p.m.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the report, Quintana Avila made a comment to Hayes in Spanish and then threw Gatorade in her face.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Hayes told them she put her hands up and told Quintana Avila twice to stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the report, Quintana Avila became \u201cbelligerent\u201d and entered the campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Hayes tried to stop the woman, at which time she threw Gatorade in the victim\u2019s face for a second time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The report states that an officer tried to \u201cverbally de-escalate\u201d the situation, but Quintana Avila became \u201cincreasingly irate\u201d and told the officer \u201cno\u201d when asked to provide her driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Quintana Avila was then taken into custody and became \u201cphysically resistant\u201d when the officer tried to walk her to his patrol car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Quintana Avila was arrested on charges of battery on a school employee, interference at an educational institution and resisting arrest without violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A motive for the alleged attack on the assistant principal was not mentioned in the arrest report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cMiami-Dade County Public Schools is aware of an isolated incident that occurred after school hours at Norland Middle School involving a parent and an administrator,\u201d the district said in a statement Wednesday to Local 10 News. \u201cMiami-Dade Schools Police quickly apprehended and arrested the individual. This District takes the safety and well-being of our students and staff very seriously and remains committed to maintaining a secure school environment for all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Wednesday afternoon, Quintana Avila was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $5,300 bond.<\/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 GARDENS, Fla. \u2014 A woman was arrested Tuesday by Miami-Dade Schools Police after she threw Gatorade in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-187722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187722","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=187722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}