Two years after critically injuring a Miami Beach pastor in a hit-and-run, a Cooper City girl has as soon as once more been arrested for allegedly driving below the affect and inflicting a crash.
Katherine Colabella, a 34-year-old former grownup movie star generally known as “Kitty Bella,” was arrested on September 3 after allegedly driving drunk, rear-ending a automobile at a pink mild in Plantation, and fleeing in her black Mercedes Benz. She is presently on probation with a revoked license in reference to a March 2021 hit-and-run on the MacArthur Causeway, the place she struck Miami Beach pastor Noé Aguilar together with her automobile, leaving him in a coma for a number of weeks.
As with the earlier incident, Colabella, who’s now a hairdresser, allegedly fled the scene. Criminal and civil courtroom data reviewed by New Times present she has been accused of inflicting not less than 4 South Florida automobile crashes since 2016.
“I can do no matter you need. Jumping jacks. You need fucking toe touches?”
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According to an arrest report, after Colabella drove away from the crash final week, a Plantation police officer caught as much as her in a close-by parking zone and positioned her below arrest. He described seeing her “bloodshot watery eyes” and smelling alcohol on her breath. Colabella, who was crying within the backseat of the police automobile, allegedly advised police she was unaware that she was concerned in a automobile crash.
The report says that when the officer requested her to take part in roadside sobriety exams, she replied: “I can do no matter you need. Jumping jacks. You need fucking toe touches?”
During a “walk-and-turn” check, “the defendant made statements akin to ‘I’m a bit dyslexic,’ and that she’s ‘naturally wobbly,'” the officer wrote within the report. The officer says he reduce off the check “for her security.”
Colabella refused to consent to a breath check, in response to the report.
The incident comes two years after Colabella was arrested within the near-deadly DUI incident in Miami-Dade County.
At round 11 p.m. on March 25, 2021, Aguilar, a co-pastor on the Pentecostal Church of God in Miami Beach, was biking dwelling from his part-time job as a waiter on the MacArthur Causeway when Colabella slammed into him after which drove off — persevering with on to her buddy’s house and leaving him on the facet of the highway with traumatic accidents. He was ultimately transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, the place he underwent surgical procedure to cease a mind bleed and remained in a coma for weeks.
Colabella admitted to police that she was drunk that night and panicked when she hit the pastor on his bicycle.
According to NBC 6, who spoke with Aguilar’s household, the pastor previously labored three jobs to offer for his spouse and two kids.
In an October 2022 profile in VoyageMIA, Colabella described how she was striving to maneuver on from adversity and numerous “bumps within the highway,” although she stopped wanting mentioning the 2021 tragedy. She mentioned she had been contemplating a profession in nursing however was too squeamish and “would most definitely cry day-after-day having to see individuals harm.”
“I wouldn’t be the place I’m in the present day with out the challenges and I nonetheless have up to now to go. So lengthy as we keep within the mild and preserve pushing ahead every thing will go as deliberate,” she mentioned.
Apart from the 2 accidents by which she was criminally charged, Colabella has been sued twice in Broward County courtroom over roadway crashes.
In the primary case, she was accused of negligently crashing right into a car in Davie in November 2016. (A quotation issued to Colabella for allegedly inflicting the crash was dismissed.) The second case concerned an October 2019 Plantation-area accident by which Colabella was accused of operating a pink mild in her Audi and slamming into one other car.
Both lawsuits have been settled.
In the incident final week, Colabella was booked at a Broward County jail on expenses of driving below the affect, driving with a suspended license, and violating probation.