Turning now to some court news with a political twist....
25 year old Shania Dominguez alleges that she was at home on Boxing Day when she was antagonized by her cousin, a police officer named Lunette Dominguez. She claims that the bad blood between them began as a land dispute. They both reportedly live on a plot of land belonging to their deceased grandfather. Shania Dominguez believes that her cousin wants the entire plot to herself and wants her to pack up and leave.
But on the 26th, what has normally been just words thrown back and forth turned into a physical altercation. Shania Dominguez reported to police that her cousin allegedly broke into her home, stole some items, and attacked her. Both women, along with the officer's son - who was involved in the altercation - were charged with harm, but Shania Dominguez believes that she was wrongly charged. She said she believes that her cousin should receive additional charges for burglary and theft as well.
Here's what she told us after she was arraigned.
Shania Dominguez, Charged With Harm
"On December 26th I was at home, I heard a loud noise on my rooftop, I opened my door and I noticed a young man that I know, I don't want to call his name, but I asked the young man if it was him who threw on top of my house and the young man did say it was him and apologized. Like approximately 20 seconds, I heard Lunette Dominguez who is an officer attached to the SPU told the young man why are you going to say it's you? are you afraid of that ***obscenity*** that is the word she said. So when she said that, both of us exchanged words and then her nephew said that he would come over to my house and punch me in my mouth then I started hearing loud noises on my house like stuff started getting stoned. When I looked, I opened my door and I saw him already at the step. I was scared, I threw regular water on him so that he could move away and go out of my yard because why are you guys in my yard. I locked back my door, sat down and I heard all the steps because Lunette is coming up, stomped open the door, the door fell straight down because the force that they came with, trashed the whole house, that's aggravated burglary, damage to property, stuff went missing so they should get charged for theft. All of those things."
"Chicken Dread came all the way to Biscayne, my home, I have the video clips, the images, all of that that I can share so people can see that I am not fabricating this story, it's reality."
"And then I'm being charged for harm for protecting my home and my child so I'm not seeing why should I be charged for harm if these people trespassed, came in my yard space, and into my home."
"The stuff that went missing from my house was my television. The injuries I received was harm. I received scratches. The nephew was the one that did most of the damage because he was the one that came in and stomped me while Lunette and I were fighting."
She is currently out on bail of $1,500. Her cousin, Lunette Dominguez and her son Ellsworth Dominguez - who turned 18 at the start of the year - were also bailed this morning. When we asked her for an interview, she declined.
For his part Paul Ferguson has denied the claims.
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