Two airline passengers were arrested during a flight after one of them refused to leave the plane due to a head bleeding.
On Monday, Eugenio Ernesto Hernandez-Garnier, 27, and Yusleydis Blanca Loyola, 32, were flying with American Airlines from Miami International Airport to Las Vegas when flight crew noticed that Hernandez-Garnier’s scalp was bleeding.
When asked to apply more bandages to his wounds – believed to be from a hair transplant – Hernandez-Garnier told staff he did not have any more, prompting a supervisor to ask him to leave the plane.
The couple replied that if they couldn’t fly, “no one else could either,” a police report said.
A TikTok video posted by Loyola shows police officers pulling Hernandez-Garnier from his seat as she sits next to him. He can be seen wearing bandages on the back of his head, but not on his head.
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“After resisting being handcuffed for a brief moment, they were arrested,” the police report states. “Due to the defendants’ actions, passengers on the flight were forced to disembark, causing unnecessary delays for the airlines.” More than 100 passengers were forced to leave the plane as a result of the incident.
The couple, both from Las Vegas, were taken to Jackson West Medical Center in Doral to be evaluated for bleeding before being transported to Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami, the police report said.
Newsweek Outside of normal business hours, he contacted Miami-Dade police via email to obtain further details about the arrests.
According to the report, the couple is accused of trespassing despite a warning and resisting an officer without the use of violence.
“During boarding of American Airlines flight 1858 on August 19, operating from Miami (MIA) to Las Vegas (LAS), two passengers became disruptive and disregarded crew members’ instructions,” American Airlines said in a statement to Newsweek“Police responded and removed both passengers from the aircraft. We thank our crew members for their professionalism and apologize to our passengers for the inconvenience.”
The airline also confirmed that the flight departed on Tuesday morning after an overnight delay.
Complaints about undisciplined passengers on board aircraft are not uncommon. On Thursday, a passenger in Australia was arrested after leaving a parked aircraft through an emergency exit, walking along a wing and climbing down an engine onto the tarmac.
Earlier this month, the captain of a Tui plane flying from Glasgow, Scotland, to Tenerife, Spain, warned his passengers not to misbehave before the plane had even left the runway.
