{"id":376796,"date":"2026-08-20T19:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T19:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376796\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T19:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T19:00:10","slug":"behind-the-wheel-brawl-between-women-in-coral-gables-leads-to-crash-into-tree-arrest-cops-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376796\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind-the-wheel brawl between women in Coral Gables leads to crash into tree, arrest, cops say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 20, 2026 at 12:45 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0August 20, 2026 at 2:49 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AYGOS3EUJJFHDCMTQ3RBYP7JXU.jpg\"  width=\"940\" height=\"528\"\/>Mariah Scuiletti (MDCR\/Copyright 2026 Google) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CORAL GABLES, Fla. \u2014 A Miami woman is facing an aggravated battery charge after authorities said she caused a car crash while fighting with another woman as the two were driving in Coral Gables just after midnight on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/20\/pelea-al-volante-entre-mujeres-en-coral-gables-termina-en-choque-contra-arbol-y-arresto-dice-la-policia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/20\/pelea-al-volante-entre-mujeres-en-coral-gables-termina-en-choque-contra-arbol-y-arresto-dice-la-policia\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Coral Gables police said Mariah Rose Scuiletti, 27, of Shorecrest, and the driver began arguing during the drive and \u201csimultaneously began striking and grabbing each other in the neck and face area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to police, the victim told police that as they drove in the 1900 block of Segovia Street, Scuiletti \u201cstruck her in the neck and began pulling her hair before (she) grabbed and pulled on the steering wheel, which caused the vehicle to swerve off the roadway and into a tree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said that medics took the victim to Baptist Health Doctors Hospital to be treated for minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to an arrest report, Scuiletti told officers that she \u201cattempted to step over the vehicle\u2019s center console to press the brake\u201d before the wreck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The report states that officers believed that Scuiletti was under the influence of alcohol at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Thursday afternoon, Scuiletti was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center with a bond listed as \u201cto be set\u201d in online jail records.<\/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<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 20, 2026 at 12:45 PM Updated:\u00a0August 20, 2026 at 2:49 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandMariah Scuiletti (MDCR\/Copyright 2026 Google) CORAL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-376796","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\/376796","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=376796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}