Warrant issued for Cleveland woman charged with clogging jail toilet

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - An arrest warrant has been issued for a Cleveland woman who is accused of intentionally clogging a toilet while she was locked up in jail and causing a flood that damaged the facility.

For the second time in less than a month, records show 26-year-old Dasia Chappell failed to appear at her scheduled arraignment in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.

A warrant was issued on Thursday and a judge ordered her $5,000 bond to be forfeited.

According to police, Chappell “purposely flooded” the Solon Detention Facility on May 27 while she was being held at the jail for another agency.

Corrections officers said she “stuffed a towel and toilet paper into the toilet of the cell that she was in and repeatedly flushed it.”

The overflowing toilet flooded the female dormitory, jail lobby and master control hallway, and investigators said the resulting water damage interfered with jail operations.

Inmates had to be relocated to another part of the 26-bed facility while officers worked to clean up the standing water.

At the time of her arrest, Chappell had an active warrant for failing to appear in Bedford Municipal Court in December 2023 for a misdemeanor criminal case.

Following the flooding incident, she was released from jail on $5,000 bond.

A grand jury indicted Chappell on one count of vandalism, a fifth-degree felony, on June 10.

If convicted, she faces up to 12 months in prison and a $2,500 fine.