Miss Kentucky Latina loses crown after assault arrest
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Updated: 8:55 PM Oct 5, 2010
Miss Kentucky Latina loses crown after assault arrest
Police say 22-year-old Daniela Gaskie stabbed a gas station attendant and fought a pharmacist last week.
Posted: 5:45 PM Oct 5, 2010
Reporter: Kristen Kennedy
Miss Kentucky Latina loses crown after assault arrest
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She lost her crown because police say she went on a royal rampage.
A couple of bizarre attacks landed a beauty queen in jail.
22-year-old Daniela Gaskie was Miss Kentucky Latina, until 27 NEWSFIRST told pageant officials about her arrest in Richmond last week.
Police say she stabbed a gas station attendant and beat up a pharmacist.
Mary Ann McKinney is still recovering from cuts and bruises she got about a week ago. The pharmacist says a woman was beating on her car, and when she walked outside to see what was going on, the woman started beating on McKinney.
"She immediately kicked me with her knee into my abdomen and ripped at me and tore my glasses off and ripped my neck and scratched me and busted my lip, had a knot on my head. She was quite wild," says McKinney, a pharmacist at M & M Drug in Richmond.
The woman McKinney wrestled is 22-year-old Daniela Gaskie. She was the reigning Miss Kentucky Latina until the organization found out about the arrest.
Police say Gaskie also stabbed an attendant at the Swifty gas station across the street from M & M Drug.
Police charged Gaskie with assault, disorderly conduct and criminal mischief. Her arrest report states officers detected alcohol on Gaskie, and that she told them she was being profiled for being "Mexican." The Miss Latina U.S. Organization says they want to support her with any difficulties she is facing, but with charges pending, she is not the role model they want. They stripped her of her title Tuesday.
"She wasn't a very good example of anything that night," says McKinney.
Our calls to Gaskie and her husband were not returned.
McKinney says she first learned about the title Gaskie held when her friends looked into her car and saw a Miss Kentucky Latina sash.
The Miss U.S. Latina organization says if they had known Gaskie was married, they would have taken away her crown sooner.
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Daniela Gaskie (Personal Photo)
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