20-year-old bites, pepper sprays mom in face over argument about car, cops say

A 20-year-old woman is accused of biting her mom and brother and deploying pepper spray in her mom’s face during an argument over the use of a family car, Coral Springs police said.

When officers responded to the call shortly before 11 p.m. March 19 about a mother and daughter fighting, they found the mom using milk on her eyes to mitigate the sting caused by the pepper spray, according to an arrest affidavit.

The mom had bite marks on one wrist, her shoulder and her back, Coral Springs police said.

She told investigators she had recently bought a car for her kids, but her daughter had been using it without permission for long stretches of time, according to the affidavit.

That night, the mom tried to take the keys from her 20-year-old daughter, and they started fighting, police said.

The mom said her daughter bit her three times during the struggle, then as her minor son tried to break them up, her daughter bit him too, according to the affidavit.

Officers said they found bite marks on the son’s arm, corroborating the statement.

The mom said that after they stopped fighting, her daughter pepper sprayed her in the face.

The daughter told police she bit her mom because she “was holding her down and she wanted to leave,” according to the affidavit.

Although the mom declined to write a sworn statement, and didn’t allow her juvenile son to either, police arrested the daughter.

She’s charged with two misdemeanor counts of domestic battery.

This story was originally published March 26, 2026 at 5:16 PM.