Newly engaged couple arrested at Miami airport blame misunderstanding: Nobody threw coffee

The couple arrested at Miami International Airport for allegedly throwing coffee in an airport worker’s face said they were flying to Mexico to celebrate their vacation — and blamed their arrests on a “misunderstanding” when one of them dropped the cup of Joe.“Nobody threw coffee.The coffee fell,” Brazilian doctor Beatriz Rapoport de Campos Maia, 29, told CBS News Miami of Sunday’s fracas with American Airlines staff.“The lady who said I threw it was a liar.

It just dropped on the floor.”Her beau, Rafael Seirafe-Novaes — who was filmed being wrestled to the floor by security — also denied throwing coffee, claiming he was the one to get unfairly hurt in the skirmish as they tried to rush for a connecting flight to the celebratory vacation in Cancun.“No, no.I am not crazy.

We wouldn’t throw coffee.Coffee, I drink,” the 41-year-old said, showing CBS scrapes on his knee.“I got this from the carpet from the polícia,” he said.

“They said I resisted.”Maia said they were rushing to make a second connecting flight for what was supposed to be a celebration of their recent engagement.“We just lost our trip to Cancun.We just got engaged, and what happened is a bad thing,” she said.“We were going to Cancun to enjoy our vacation, all-inclusive hotel.

We already paid the hotel.It’s a lot of money.

And then we were not able to do that,” she said.Officials have said one of the pair threw coffee in the face of an American Airlines employee, with sheriff’s deputies called out to their planned flight.De Campos Maia and Seirafe-Novaes were charged with battery and trespassing after allegedly ignoring “No Trespassing” signs on the jet bridge while attempting to board their flight.Seirafe-Novaes also faces a charge of resisting arrest without violence.American Airlines told the outlet: “Acts of violence are not tolerated by American Airlines, and we are committed to working closely with law enforcement in the investigation.” T...