THIS is the shocking moment two drunken New Jersey sisters burst into hysterics after allegedly attacking an airline gate agent.
Police bodycam footage showed the sunburn siblings being dramatically arrested and hauled off their Florida flight.
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Two New Jersey sisters were arrested at Orlando International Airport[/caption]
Orlando Police DepartmentThe sisters were removed from their flight for alleged intoxication and causing a disturbance[/caption]
The chaotic scene unfolded at Orlando International Airport on May 15, when sisters Kiera Lyons, 22, and Maura Flores, 31, were booted from their Garden State-bound plane for allegedly being intoxicated and causing a ruckus.
Bodycam footage released Wednesday appears to show a Frontier Airlines worker sitting on the floor of the airbridge, visibly shaken after the alleged assault.
“It was the short, skinny one first that pushed me and then the bigger — her sister — pushed me right after,” the employee told an Orlando police officer, describing the moment she said the pair attacked her.
The worker claimed she was told to call her supervisor and the cops after the women refused to leave the aircraft and began “screaming” and “causing a scene.”
When they finally agreed to deplane, things allegedly took an ugly turn.
As the sisters exited, Lyons — the younger of the two — allegedly got in the crew member’s face, shouting, “F*** you, you fat b****.”
“I said, ‘Thank you,’” the shaken employee recalled in the footage.
“When she was facing me, she pushed me and then turned around, and then the sister came up and shoved me again,” adding that she tripped over something during the scuffle.
A flight attendant nearby backed up the alleged victim’s story, telling officers both women pushed the gate agent.
Outside the jetbridge, the mayhem continued.
In the video, Lyons could be seen gasping for air and sobbing as she told police she has “anxiety and depression.”
She claimed she was feeling sick in the plane’s bathroom when a flight attendant ordered her off the aircraft.
Her sister Flores chimed in, saying the attendant accused Lyons of being drunk — which she admitted.
“Yeah, I had a few drinks,” Lyons reportedly told them.
Lyons then claimed the situation escalated when a male employee allegedly touched her chest, prompting her to demonstrate on an officer by pushing his chest.
“I had a couple drinks, but I’m literally supposed to walk for graduation [tomorrow],” Lyons cried in the video.
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The shaken airline employee sitting on the floor of the airbridge[/caption]
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The sisters kept pledging their case as they got into the police car[/caption]
“I’m a Division III athlete. It just sucks.”
Lyons, a former Stockton University field hockey player who now works as a gym trainer, was seen being cuffed moments later — setting off her furious sister.
“You are not handcuffing my sister!” Flores screamed.
“I’m calling my lawyer right now.”
Flores then attempted to bolt before being restrained and cuffed herself.
“Are you kidding me?” she shouted. “You believe that girl?”
Inside the police car, the sisters kept pleading their case.
Orlando Police DepartmentMugshot of Maura Flores, 31[/caption]
Orlando PoliceDepartmentKiera Lyons, 22, was also arrested[/caption]
Maura begged: “Can you at least take the cuffs off while I am in the car? I’m not a criminal.”
A weary female officer told them to “save their energy to argue in court.”
Both women were charged with first-degree battery and second-degree disorderly conduct for allegedly assaulting the gate agent, who suffered minor injuries.
According to court filings from Florida’s Ninth Judicial Circuit, both cases were closed on September 17 after the sisters were referred to a pre-trial intervention (PTI) programme — a diversion scheme for nonviolent offenders aimed at rehabilitation.
Under Florida law, if they successfully complete the programme, their criminal charges will be dismissed.
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Flores speaking to a police officer as her sister had a nervous breakdown[/caption]