Police sergeant arrested for battery. The alleged weapon: a shoe.
A car argument escalated into a nose-bloodying shoe attack, the significant other of a Miami police sergeant told Miami-Dade cops, according to an arrest report.
The report also said Yaosca Vanages’ live-in boyfriend’s “statements were consistent with his injuries.” Vanegas, 37, was arrested on a misdemeanor battery charge at their home, around 1:45 a.m. Monday.
The style of shoe was not included in the report.
Vanegas is an active sergeant with the Miami Police Department, a agency she’s been with for 13 years. She’s listed as the vice president of the Miami Police Hispanic Officers Association on the organization’s most recent annual report to the state of Florida.
Late Sunday night, the arrest report says, an argument between Vanegas and her significant other began as they drove home. The report says Vanegas, riding in the passenger seat, chose to express herself by taking off a shoe and whacking the dashboard. She then gave her significant other’s face the same treatment as he drove “causing a minor nose bleed.”
He stopped the car and got out at Southwest 137th Avenue and 34th Street. While he called police, Vanegas drove to their home.
The report says Vanegas said there was an “altercation in the vehicle” but denied any violence toward her boyfriend.