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An exotic dancer who was fired from a nightclub in North Miami Beach returned to the establishment and attacked the manager with a seven-foot-long metal bar, authorities reported on Tuesday.
Princess Aaliyah Bell, 23 years old and residing in Detroit, Michigan, was arrested on Monday night following the incident that occurred at the club Taboo Miami by G5ive, located at 331 NW 170th Street.
According to the police report, Bell had been dismissed from the establishment due to her "strange behavior and her tendency to fight with coworkers."
Despite the dismissal, management allowed him to return to the store to collect his personal belongings.
However, upon arriving, Bell did not calmly collect his belongings: he began to run through the club, throw objects, insult the staff, and create a disturbance that disrupted the normal operation of the business.
The security personnel escorted her outside, but she returned armed with a metal bar, which she began to wave in front of the guards.
According to the arrest report cited by Local 10, the pole "almost" struck one of the security guards, who told the officers that he "feared for his life."
Finally, Bell threw the bar and hit the club manager in the leg.
After the attack, he fled the scene on foot.
An officer located her walking near a Shell gas station at the intersection of Northwest Seventh Avenue and 171st Street, but Bell ignored the order to stop and fled on foot.
She was captured shortly after 11:50 PM near the westbound ramp of State Road 826, following a brief foot chase.
During the arrest, there was resistance: Bell refused to stand up and pushed his body weight against the ground, according to the police report.
Furthermore, he refused to identify himself and provided his older sister's name as an alias.
The officers found her actual identification inside her phone case, and subsequently, Bell had to be dragged to the fingerprinting office for formal identification.
She was taken to the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel and to Jackson Memorial Hospital West for a medical evaluation before being admitted to jail.
She was booked at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center shortly after 5:10 am on Tuesday.
Bell faces seven charges: aggravated assault, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, providing a false name or identification after arrest, and four charges of resisting an officer without violence.
In her appearance before a judge on Tuesday, as reported by NBC Miami, it was revealed that Bell also has a fugitive arrest warrant from the state of Georgia related to a robbery, as well as an intrastate warrant from Florida.
The prison records indicate that she was initially held without bail due to outstanding fugitive warrants.
The judge appointed a public defender and set his bail at $13,500.
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