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Home  >  Law In Travel • Southwest Airlines  >  Extended Prison Sentence Likely For Woman Who Brutally Assaulted Southwest Airlines Flight Attendant After Latest DUI Incident
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Extended Prison Sentence Likely For Woman Who Brutally Assaulted Southwest Airlines Flight Attendant After Latest DUI Incident

Matthew Klint Posted onMarch 26, 2022March 26, 2022 12 Comments

Vyvianna Quinonez, the woman who made headlines around the world last year for brutally assaulting a Southwest Airlines flight attendant is now facing an extended prison sentence after she violated her plea deal by being arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol. The woman blames a recent gastric bypass surgery.

Vyvianna Quinonez, Woman Who Assaulted Southwest Airlines Flight Attendant Faces Longer Prison Term After New DUI Arrest

28-year-old Quinonez shocked the world after video showed her punching a Southwest Airlines flight attendant with a closed first on a flight to San Diego over a mask dispute (the flight attendant had told Quinonez to return her seat to the upright position, stow her tray table, and put on her mask prior to landing). Three of the flight attendant’s teeth were damaged, two of them requiring crowns. She also needed stitches for a deep cut and suffered bruising.

With video evidence clearly implicating Quinonez, she “admitted that she stood up and assaulted the flight attendant by punching her in the face and head with a closed fist and grabbing her hair,” pleading guilty to assault.

That was on January 7, 2022. But on January 16, 2022, she was pulled over by California Highway Patrol after being observed driving erratically. She admitted to the officer that she had consumed a couple drinks, blaming her disorientation on a fight with her boyfriend and a recent gastric bypass surgery which left her more prone to getting drunk.

Prosecutors were not amused, telling the Sacramento Bee:

“However, Defendant told pretrial services that her doctor informed her that ‘if she drinks alcohol, her blood alcohol concentration may rise abnormally due to the small size of her stomach.’

“Given this warning by her doctor, Defendant should have been especially careful about the possibility of driving while intoxicated.”

An arrest warrant was issued and on February 15th she was served the warrant and placed under the custody of U.S. Marshals.

Her sentencing hearing has now been re-scheduled to May 27, 2022. She remains locked up.

Quinonez faces a maximum fine of $250,000 and up to 20 years in prison. Having violated the conditions of her parole just a week after her plea agreement, she potentially faces a harsher sentence, even if only the assault charge remains, due to a judge’s discretion in setting the penalty.

CONCLUSION

A part of you must feel sorry for a woman who may have ruined her life through a series of poor decisions. But her failure to abide by plea conditions and the absolutely brutal assault on a flight attendant merits, in my view, an extremely harsh punishment (within the statutory limit) that hopefully will serve as a chilling reminder to others not to assault flight attendants.


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Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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12 Comments

  1. Debit Reply
    March 26, 2022 at 3:56 pm

    Send her to ukraine to fight for her freedom. Either that or, 20 years in prison.

    We need more women from the equal rights brigade to go volunteer for tasks like these.

  2. DaninMCI Reply
    March 26, 2022 at 4:20 pm

    She obviously has a drinking problem and that is the root of most of the incidents we’ve seen on planes over the past 10+ years.

  3. CW Reply
    March 26, 2022 at 4:59 pm

    Why feel sorry? She’s a grown woman.

  4. Shaun Reply
    March 26, 2022 at 5:07 pm

    As the Trumpers say….”lock her up! Lock her up!”

  5. David S Reply
    March 27, 2022 at 12:28 am

    Yep -a perfect candidate to “throw the book at her”.

  6. Steve Reply
    March 27, 2022 at 3:04 am

    Sorry but absolutely “none” of me feels sorry for this piece of human trash. She knowingly chose the path she now walks and there is zero, I mean zero excuse to assault “anyone” simply for performing their required work duties. Alcohol and air travel are as dangerous a combination as alcohol and automobiles and should be treated equally as harshly in the eyes of the law!

  7. Cy Reply
    March 27, 2022 at 4:36 pm

    Sorry, don’t feel sorry for her at all.

  8. Raquel Reply
    March 27, 2022 at 7:26 pm

    This woman created a business promoting her sea moss drinks as the reason for her 70lb weight loss and never mentioned getting gastric bypass surgery. She is a dishonest, morally corrupt person. She deserves the longest prison sentence possible.

  9. Name Withheld Reply
    May 27, 2022 at 10:20 pm

    Well said Raquel.

  10. Tom Tully Reply
    May 28, 2022 at 10:49 am

    Her original agreement was for 4 months. Now it’s 15 months. She looks like a loser who will never be able to pay her restitution and fine of $30k. Will likely violate parole over and over again. In her case why even bother to plead guilty. By going to trial her sentence would likely been a year to two.

  11. LORI KEARNS Reply
    May 28, 2022 at 12:46 pm

    Sad she only got 15 months and that seems to have been waved.

    • Matthew Klint Reply
      May 28, 2022 at 2:24 pm

      Waved?

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