Vanessa Barcelo is a beauty pageant winner and bakery owner from Hialeah, Florida. ^[1]

Vanessa Barcelo won the Miss Miami Lakes title 2017 title in April.

She lost in the Miss Florida USA 2017 competition in July.

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Vanessa also owns a bakery specializing in customized cakes typically with fondant icing. ^{[0] [2]}

Vanessa Barcelo, 26, was arrested early Thursday December 22, 2016 after she allegedly used a Nike aluminum baseball bat to beat someone at her own holiday party. ^[1]

She faces charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery and battery. ^{[3] [1]}

“At one point, most of guests, including the arrested, became very intoxicated,” an officer wrote in her arrest report.

According to the report, she was hosting a party at her Hialeah home to promote her business — One Love Cakes — when she confronted David Duperon, who had gone upstairs to help another partygoer.

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Duperon and another witness told police that he had complied with her request to leave, but she “armed herself with a blue Nike aluminum bat she keeps in her living room,” an officer wrote, and followed him outside. ^[1]

She then continued to push him with the baseball bat and then hit him on the shoulder, according to the report.

^[46]Another subject, who has not been identified, punched the victim in the face.

Police say Barcelo then “began to punch/hit him in the face/eye area several times with her hands.”

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