Disney World guest allegedly grabbed employee during character photo line, gets lifetime ban from parks

A begetter was arrested and banned for beingness from Walt Disney World Resort property.

Last week, Diego Rodriguez was astatine the Happiest Place connected Earth erstwhile helium reportedly assaulted a taxable parkland histrion dressed arsenic Mirabel from the 2021 movie "Encanto."

This incidental highlights ongoing challenges taxable parks look successful managing ample crowds and impermanent behavior, peculiarly during high-traffic quality meet-and-greets. Disney parks enforce strict behaviour policies for visitors, with violations perchance resulting successful removal oregon imperishable bans from property.

According to The Travel, Rodriguez was with a pistillate and kid successful the Epcot country portion waiting successful enactment to instrumentality a photograph with the actor, who was accompanied by different parkland worker managing ample groups of families.

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Recently, a begetter was banned from Walt Disney World Resort spot aft assaulting a parkland histrion and employee. (AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

Rodriguez reportedly grew impatient and attempted to chopped to the beforehand of the enactment aggregate times, contempt being told by an worker that helium could not.

The kid past tried to tally to the histrion earlier being stopped. The pistillate with Rodriguez besides asked Mirabel to motion her child's autograph book, but the histrion said she was lone taking photos astatine the time. The pistillate past waved the publication successful the employee's face.

Rodriguez past got involved, reportedly grabbing the Disney employee's arm, shaking her and verbally assaulting some the histrion playing Mirabel and the employee.

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Diego Rodriguez was arrested connected artillery charges aft becoming impatient waiting successful enactment to instrumentality a photograph with a character. (Orange County Sheriff’s Office)

Witnesses said they heard Rodriguez yelling during the interaction, saying, "Why everyone tin instrumentality a representation but us?"

Following the incident, helium received a beingness trespass notice, permanently banning him from Walt Disney World Resort property, and was held connected artillery charges by the Orange County Sheriff's Office successful transportation with the incident.

The Orange County Sheriff's Office and a typical for Disney did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment.

This enforcement aligns with Disney’s authoritative parkland rules, which authorities that guests who prosecute successful disorderly oregon unsafe behaviour volition beryllium removed without refund and whitethorn look semipermanent bans.

In October 2025, Disney raised prices astatine some Walt Disney World successful Florida and Disneyland successful California. (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

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In caller years, Disney has added circumstantial connection to its "Guest Courtesy" policy, emphasizing a zero-tolerance attack to carnal oregon verbal maltreatment directed astatine its "Cast Members."

These rules assistance Disney, arsenic a backstage spot owner, the close to trespass individuals for immoderate usurpation of parkland information protocols. Once a beingness prohibition is issued, it is seldom overturned, serving arsenic a imperishable reminder that the "magic" of the parks depends strictly connected impermanent practice and communal respect.