A woman who was on her way to a Florida rehab facility was arrested after she disrupted a Spirit Airlines flight because she was drinking vodka beverages.
Heather Lynn Dykman, 40, was on Spirit Flight 443 on Tuesday heading from Baltimore to the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport when she started acting up, a Broward County Sheriff's Office report says according to The Smoking Gun.
According to the report, a flight attendant told police that Dykman was given two alcoholic beverages wgile on board, however the crew said the woman was clearly becoming intoxicated, so they cut her off and refused to serve her any more drinks.
Dykman wasn't too happy about being cut off. According to the report, she became very angry and yelling, using profanity and disturbing the operation of the flight." She demanded more vodka and even left her seat and went to the galley area where she started screaming racist statements like "Stop sending your house nigger to do the messages for you."
Dykman was given a warning and was told that she was violating Federal Aviation Administration regulations, but she didn't stop her tirade. The report says she "continued yelling, making racial slurs, cursing and making obscene gestures (extending her middle finger) to the crew during the entirety of the flight."
When the flight landed, Dykman still proceeded to carry on. Police met her after the flight and she was arrested but she continued to use "profanity and racial slurs in front of approximately 300 passengers in the concourse."
Dykman was charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct and was booked into the Broward County jail. During her arraignment on Wednesday, she told the judge "I came down for a 30-day rehab program."
The judge gave Dyckman a $250 bond, which was later met and she was released. However the judge had more to stay.
"I'm going to order you not to consume any alcohol while you are out, all right, ma'am?" Broward Judge John "Jay" Hurley said. "And you have to stay off Spirit Airlines. I'm sure Spirit's already noted that."
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