Inset: Yirsi Machado Rivera (Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation). Background: The Opa-locka, Fla., area where authorities say the defendant threw human waste at her neighbor (Google Maps).
A Florida woman is facing criminal charges after police say she hurled a container filled with her own feces at a neighbor during a confrontation.
Yirsi Machado Rivera, 50, has been charged with one count of burglary and one count of battery, Miami-Dade County court records show.
The incident allegedly took place Monday, Sept. 7, at the Royal Country Mobile Homes community on Northwest 200th Terrace in Opa-locka, a small city within the Miami metropolitan area.
According to a charging document obtained by Law&Crime, Machado Rivera and the alleged victim live on opposite sides of a divided trailer.
Police said Machado Rivera went to her neighbor’s side of the residence and “began banging on the door.”
When the neighbor opened it, authorities allege, Machado Rivera accused the victim of having a sexual relationship with her husband, according to the complaint and arrest affidavit.
From there, investigators say, the dispute quickly escalated.
The defendant next “forced her way” into the neighbor’s home without permission, according to law enforcement. While inside the residence, she “began shoving the victim,” police said.
Then came an attack involving feces, authorities say.
“Before exiting the victim’s residence, the defendant subsequently threw a bucket containing human feces onto the victim,” the charging document reads. “The defendant then exited the victim’s residence.”
After that, police officers arrived and took Machado Rivera into custody, according to the complaint. At a nearby police station, the defendant allegedly agreed to talk after hearing her Miranda rights.
During the interview, the defendant offered a different narrative, according to law enforcement.
To hear Machado Rivera tell it, she was simply “trying to get rid of a bucket of ‘caca’ that she was using due to her residence having a broken toilet,” according to the charging document.
The defendant said she and the victim had gotten into “a verbal dispute over the smell of the ‘caca’ and the problem it was causing.”
Machado Rivera also blamed her neighbor for the incident, police said.
“The defendant advised that the victim hit her over the head with a bat causing a laceration to her head,” the complaint goes on. “The defendant denied entering the victim’s residence and throwing ‘caca’ at the victim.”
But authorities disputed that account.
“The defendant stated to the witness that she pooped in a bucket to throw it in the victim’s face,” a note on the charging document reads.
Machado Rivera is detained in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, records show.
On Tuesday, Miami-Dade Bond Court Judge Mindy Glazer granted a request by prosecutors to hold the defendant in pretrial detention, according to a courtroom report by the Miami Herald.
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