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- A woman sustained several injuries after a road rage incident in late March.
- Both suspects in the case have been detained, according to officials.
The Broward County Sheriff's Office said the second sister accused in the Lauderdale Lakes road rage incident in which a woman was attacked with baseball bats has been arrested.
Julie Sam, 27, turned herself into the BSO main jail on Friday. She faces a charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, a second-degree felony.
Her sister Samantha Denis, 22, was previously arrested and faces the same charge over the same ordeal.
Mikaela Barboza said she sustained a broken nose when two sisters attacked her. She said she cut off another driver in late March near Fort Lauderdale. The other driver and her sister, who was in another car, began yelling at her.
Barboza said she pulled into a nearby parking lot in Lauderdale Lakes because she was worried for her safety. She called 911 when the women followed her and blocked in her car.
She started recording on her cellphone as the women approached, Barboza said. They got into a tussle and one of the women hit Barboza with a metal bat. The other hit her with a wooden bat, she said.
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The other women left before deputies arrived.
