A Southern California woman heading to Bogota, Colombia to meet her family for the holidays was arrested on Christmas Eve after allegedly attacking a JetBlue crew member on a flight from Los Angeles to Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Trisha Sen, 39, was arrested early morning Dec. 24 by Broward County sheriffs immediately upon landing, and has been charged with a single count of battery. But the Quebec native has told local media that she is the victim, and has displayed arms filled with bruises.
“I did not hit them,” said Sen. “It was self-defense because they were beating me. My entire body is full of bruises.”
“This was done to me on the airplane because the stewardess said I wasn’t complying with her well enough,” the Indo-Canadian said. “So she had the entire staff attack me. And then I was arrested.”
Sen spent Christmas Eve in jail, and Dec. 26 was on an undisclosed amount of bail. She was not allowed to continue on to Bogota to meet her family, but has instead returned to Los Angeles.
Dani Moschella, spokeswoman for the Broward County Sheriff’s Department, told India-West that the incident began when JetBlue flight attendants refused to serve Sen any more alcohol.
“She was aggravated and pacing in the aisle on the plane. An off-duty, uniformed captain was in the cockpit, so the crew asked him to speak to the woman. When confronted, she scratched his face, so an off-duty Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy stepped in to help restrain her,” said Moschella, who could not disclose how much alcohol Sen had previously been served.
Read News in full 03/01/14 Sunita Sohrabji/India West
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