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A drunk woman who trashed a New York fries restaurant after being asked to pay $1.75 extra for sauce is now suing a car wash, claiming she 'fell down a drain' shortly after they refused to clean her friend's egg-covered car at 3am.
Chitara Plasencia and her two friends were arrested and charged with robbery, criminal mischief and criminal possession of a weapon after starting a violent food fight inside the Bel Fries fast food restaurant on Manhattan's Lower East Side in July 2022.
A viral video of the chaotic incident shows the women twerking on the counter and hurling food and a stool at terrified staff after being told the cost of extra sauce.
The women first appeared in court over the incident last July - Plasencia has since pled guilty to assault and is due back in court in December.
But it has now emerged that she is also involved in at least two more ongoing legal disputes. In one, she is suing a Brooklyn car wash for negligence claiming she 'fell down a drain' and was seriously injured.
Chitara Plasencia taunted Bel Fries employees who cowered behind the counter during the incident. Chaos broke out when she and two other women were told the cost of extra sauce at the Manhattan fast food restaurant
One of the women twerked on the plexiglass. Two employees suffered head lacerations and were 'scared for their lives', according to the restaurant's co-owner
The complaint, originally filed in November 2019, claims that at 3am on February 23, 2019, Zap Car Wash & Oil Change in Brooklyn refused to serve her and her friends.
She says when she then entered the car wash, she fell down an uncovered drain and suffered 'severe injuries'.
She alleges that the car wash was 'reckless, careless and negligent' by failing to cover or signpost the drain.
In her deposition, Plasencia said she was on a double date with her friend Pearl Ozoria - one of the other women involved in the fries incident - and two men.
She said that they had been at a hookah lounge and when they left at 2.30am they discovered one of the men's car had been 'vandalized with syrup and eggs'.
They decided to go to Zap Car Wash, which is open 24 hours.
She said she got out of the car to speak to a worker, but they denied them service so she asked to speak to a manager and walked past the staff member into the garage.
She said it was dark inside and as she was walking her left foot 'went through an uncovered drain' so her left leg went through the hole to six inches above the knee.
She claims Ozoria saw her fall.
Chitara Plasencia was arrested over the Bel Fries incident and first appeared in court last July - she is due back in court in December. She shouted at the press: 'What's wrong with ya'll? Come any closer to me. I dare you'
Plasencia taunted Bel Fries employees who cowered behind the counter. The restaurant's co-owner said the women had caused up to $20,000 worth of damage
But the company behind the car wash said the incident 'could not have occurred' because that part of the business was shut at the time, the staff on duty had no memory of the incident and the building is fully lit.
They also had an expert measure their drains and found 'even if Plaintiff was able to access the back area, she would not have been able to fit her entire leg into the drain.
'At most, Plaintiff would only have been able to get the first 2 inches of her foot into the drain based on the dimensions.'
Plasencia says the person who refused her service was 'an individual of Nigerian descent', but the car wash's representatives say there were no employees of Nigerian descent working there at the time.
The case is ongoing.
Plasencia is also involved in an ongoing legal dispute over a health insurance claim following a car crash in September 2021.
She was a passenger in the car and claimed for medical treatment after the crash - but the State Farm Fire and Casualty Company insurer has disputed her claim.
Plasencia is due back in court over the Bel Fries case on December 29.
She, Ozoria and their other friend Tatiyanna Johnson made headlines after they were caught on camera assaulting restaurant staff.
The wild scene broke out in the early hours of July 3 2022 when the three drunk women entered the restaurant on Ludlow Street and were told by restaurant employees that they would have to pay an additional $1.75 for extra sauce with their order.
One of them then stood on the counter and began to twerk while the other two threw food at the helpless staff and destroyed property.
Two employees suffered head lacerations and were 'scared for their lives' according to the restaurant's co-owner, who estimated the women had caused $20,000 worth of damage.
Plasencia says she went to Zap Car Wash at 3am after a double date at a hookah lounge. Upon leaving the venue they found their car had been 'vandalized with syrup and eggs'
Court documents showed a drain at the car wash
The trio were seen laughing as they climbed on the counter, threw restaurant stools, ripped down the plexiglass partition used for Covid safety, threw bottles of sauce and unknown objects into the air as a group of spectators outside cheered them on, with some recording the melee.
A NYPD spokesperson told DailyMail.com at the time that one of the women removed approximately $10 from the cash register.
Two staff members, a 33-year-old woman and a 38-year-old man, sustained minor injuries to their heads as a result. The woman was transported by EMS to Sinai Beth Israel, the spokesperson said.
Staff at the restaurant said they were scared to come back to work after the incident.
The three women were taken into custody by responding officers in the vicinity of Rivington Street and Essex Street.
Appearing in court last July, Plasencia berated journalists, shouting: 'What's wrong with ya'll?
'Come any closer to me. I dare you.'
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