Woman who once beat Burger King manager over fries now accused of Miami Springs Uber carjacking

MIAMI SPRINGS, Fla. — A woman who pleaded guilty to beating a Miami-Dade Burger King manager after being denied free fries is now accused of setting her sights on a rideshare driver in Miami Springs in an attack in which she wielded the man’s own Yeti water bottle as a weapon.

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Natasha Ethel Bagley, 49, of Hialeah, described in court records as a “career criminal,” is facing several new felonies following an arrest on Wednesday.

According to the Miami Springs Police Department, Bagley’s latest attack happened just before 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Sleep Inn at 105 Fairway Drive.

Investigators said Bagley became “irate” at the rideshare driver, working for the company Alto on behalf of Uber, and “began making verbal threats.”

“Upon entering the carport of the hotel, Bagley got out of the Uber and began kicking the rear right passenger door of the vehicle,” an MSPD arrest report states. “(She) proceeded to forcibly remove the weather seal of the door.”

Police said the driver got out “and attempted to stop her from causing further damage,” but she instead “reached back into the rear right passenger floorboard, and grabbed (his) medium-sized, metal Yeti water bottle and began swinging it at (his) head with her right hand.”

Authorities said in fear for his life, he retreated to the door of the hotel. According to the report, she then ran towards the driver’s side door of the Kia EV9, sat down inside and “began forcibly removing the turn signal and windshield wiper lever off the steering wheel.”

The report states Bagley then threw the components on the ground and closed the driver’s side door, slamming it on the driver’s arm as he tried, unsuccessfully, to stop her from taking off with the SUV with his iPhone still inside.

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Staff members, who told police Bagley was staying at the hotel, called police on Wednesday to tell them that she had returned. Police then responded and took her into custody on charges of carjacking, aggravated assault with a weapon, criminal mischief, grand theft and battery.

She’s now back in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center and being held without bond as of Thursday.

It should be familiar confines for Bagley, who has an extensive history of arrests in Miami-Dade County.

Court records show in 2020, she pleaded guilty to burglary with assault or battery, strong-armed robbery and criminal mischief in connection with the aforementioned Burger King case, stemming from an incident on April 2, 2019.

Officers with what was then the Miami-Dade Police Department said Bagley, then 42, and another woman, identified as 27-year-old Genesis Peguero, went into the drive-thru at the chain’s location at 18240 S. Dixie Highway in the unincorporated West Perrine area and demanded free fries.

Authorities said an employee denied them the fries and the two went into the restaurant shortly after asking which employee called one of them a “b—-.”

Police said Peguero jumped over the counter, prompting the manager to come out. Police said Peguero demanded the manager open the register and give her money and threatened to “hit her over the face” with a pistol and eventually grabbed the manager’s phone and punched her. Bagley joined in, hitting and kicking the manager, police said.

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Records show Peguero, now 34, also took a plea in the case, receiving probation.