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These booking photos show Jose Antonio Freire Interian, left, and Yohana Anahi Gonzalez. The couple, who both tested positive for COVID-19, were arrested, Thursday, July 29, 2020, in the Florida Keys after authorities said they violated quarantine rules. (Monroe County Sheriff’s Office)
“I didn’t do anything. I was just walking my dog.” His neighbor filmed him. It’s like the bloody Nazis or the Soviets.
Not simply a fine. Jail. But if you burn down buildings, destroy cities, loot, shoot, etc. ….. you are exalted.
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Florida couple arrested for breaking COVID-19 quarantine order
By Associated Press, Jul 31, 2020
Florida couple arrested for breaking COVID-19 quarantine order
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Jose Freire Interian was walking his dog near his Key West home when a neighbor began recording him on her cellphone. Hours later, police came knocking on his door with an arrest warrant and whisked Freire and his wife to the county jail.
The charge: violating quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19.
As a national debate swirls over masks and self-quarantines, communities are grappling over how aggressively they should enforce myriad rules meant to control the spread of the novel strain of coronavirus, which has now infected more than 460,000 in Florida and killed nearly 6,600 of its residents.
“It’s a national debate up until the health department tells you to quarantine, and then there’s no more debate,” Key West City Manager Greg Veliz said Thursday.
“If the law allows someone to be arrested for violating a quarantine order and they continue to thumb their nose at the law — yeah, they should be arrested,” Veliz said.
Intense debate over masks, business closures and social distancing have raged since the start of the outbreak. Arrests have been rare, but there have been occasional flare ups.
In May, a Kentucky woman infected with the virus was arrested while shopping for groceries. Authorities accused her of “wanton endangerment” and “criminal mischief.”
That same month, a coronavirus patient was chased down and arrested in Nashville after being placed under quarantine by public health officials.
In Hawaii last month, 21 travelers were arrested for breaking the state’s mandatory 14-day quarantine. None tested positive for the coronavirus.
Veliz said the Florida couple was arrested Wednesday after police received a complaint and a video showing a possible violation of a quarantine order imposed by state public health officials against the couple
[…]
State officials said Freire Interian and his wife, Yohana Gonzalez, 26, learned they were infected with the virus on July 15, after being tested five days earlier.
They were advised to wear face masks at home, a three bedroom house the couple shares with at least three other tenants. And they were required to self-isolate for at least 14 days.
But the Florida Department of Health determined them to “present an immediate danger of harm to others” when it was notified that the couple had gone to the grocery story on July 20 while possible still infected. A day later, the agency issued a mandatory quarantine order against the couple.
Police said they received video footage Wednesday showing a possible violation of that order and asked a judge to issue arrest warrants.
Freire Interian and Gonzalez, who were released Thursday after posting bail, expressed disbelief over the misdemeanor charges. They speculated that the arrests were the result of a soured relationship with another tenant.
“I didn’t do anything. I was just walking my dog,” said Freire Interian, 24, who said his pet needed to relieve herself. “It’s not as if I left the house to go shopping.”
While he was walking his dog, he said, he was being recorded by one of his neighbors.
Later in the afternoon, police arrived.
“They knocked on the door real loud. I opened the door. They told me ‘Come on,’ and I asked them, ‘Why?’ I was in shock,” Freire Interian said. “Why am I getting arrested for? It was unfair.”
Michael Morley, a law professor at Florida State University, said government officials may have compelling reasons to more aggressively enforce public health rules, including requiring people to wear masks in public places — as is required by some jurisdictions, including Key West.
“To the extent that there’s any debate, it’s not really a constitutional and statutory debate. It’s more of a policy debate whether the public health risk is sufficient to warrant” a crackdown on those violating public health laws, Morley said.
“Any general deterrence is always one goal of law enforcement,” he said, noting that the arrests could “encourage other people to comply with the law.”
The Key West couple is expected to face a judge on Aug. 10.
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26 Comments
3 years ago
Won’t happen here. No way in hell.
3 years ago
find out who the neighbor was who squealed on him. then dump your dog doo on their porch, order pizzas to their house 10 times a day, park on their curb with your radio blaring at 3 AM nightly, knock on their door daily to ask whether they want to buy a gym membership, and generally let them know what you think of them. my guess is they’ll leave by year end.
3 years ago
Karen is always watching because Karen has nothing better to do
3 years ago
OK so the LEO morons arrested someone over a “rule” but didn’t arrest the moronic neighbor for recording in violation of an actual LAW that states it’s a 2 party state????
3 years ago
Good grief. It isn’t that complicated. Just get with the times.
When walking your dog, carry a blm sign and toss a few Molotov cocktails at neighboring houses.
Good to go. Good as gold.
3 years ago
surely it’s a case of “differing cultural norms,” like whent the muzz go honoring killing or walking THEIR dogs… oh, wait
3 years ago
Did the Gestapo, I mean the Police, arrest the dog too?
3 years ago
Reply to
PlatinumGhost
I would think so. because the dog was most likelz not wearing a mask
3 years ago
““To the extent that there’s any debate, it’s not really a constitutional and statutory debate.”
Yeah actually it is. Law profs are MORONS and even FRAUDS
3 years ago
Ok, I understand the dog needed to relieve himself, but what size was it that it needed two people to walk it?
3 years ago
I see the police did not get good people to recruit so they got these guys. What a shame! It used to be that the police got the best people to serve now they get the worst and the dumbest.
3 years ago
Florida purportedly has 6,600 Covid deaths – if that can be believed – due to Doctors receiving cash incentives for declaring any death is covid – without even a verification by testing. And its mosly fatal to octogenarians and those with multiple health issues. Ever notice the media scrubs the age of the victims from the announcements? Why s that?
But regardless 6,600 deaths is significantly lower than Florida’s seasonal flu deaths in any given year. And seasonal flu kills more people in all age groups regardless of Vaccines
If you don’t like this research it and prove me wrong – you can’t
3 years ago
Getting a covid-19 test is opening yourself up to legal, medical tyranny. Why would anyone allow themselves to be treated as second class citizens. Unless you’re deathly ill, stay the hell away from hospitals. Even if you’re not infected when admitted, you will be by the time you leave.
3 years ago
We have to wake up finally!
We must maintain our weapons, massively increase them, and prepare ourselves even better for the civil war.
Our enemies are nefarious, pitiless, unscrupulous, murderous.
It is high time to show the Deep State, the Chinese Communists, Democrats, and Muslims by any means who is ruling the roost in the House of the United States.
3 years ago
As a red-state Florida native, I look at the whole of SE Florida as our rectum; Key West is the anus.
3 years ago
“As a national debate swirls over masks and self-quarantines….”
WHAT NATIONAL DEBATE????
So far there has been no debate. It has been Fauci dictating to the country what will happen and governors are imposing upon the public that which Lord Fauci blesses and then some. Meanwhile Donald Trump gives no voice to any physician who dissents and makes no attempt to refute the numbers that are being reported.
Question: We are being told that 75% of people who have CV19 do not even know that they are sick. But at the same time it is being suggested that we will all die.
If I were to to do a “blood test” and tell you that you have chicken pox. Are you going to believe that even though you feel fine and do not have even a single pock mark on your body? Or are you going to question whether or not the “blood test” is measuring a past infection from which you have recovered?
I suspect this is why they are not telling people that we have all had coronavirus infections in the past because CV is the 2nd leading cause of the common cold.
3 years ago
One question … Why aren’t the Police going after the rioters ??
Could be it is the Dem’s/Commies voting base therefor they are exempt from ALL laws ???
This is selective enforcing of the laws, the same treatment that Hillary Clinton got under the obama administration.
Which is good if you are a Dem/Commie..
3 years ago
As soon as you get out, go set fire to your neighbor’s house.
3 years ago
The Nazis reveal themselves in their efforts to shut down American citizens
3 years ago
” Michael Morley, a law professor at Florida State University, said
government officials may have compelling reasons to more aggressively
enforce public health rules, including requiring people to wear masks in
public places — as is required by some jurisdictions, including Key
West. ”
“To the extent that there’s any debate, it’s not really a
constitutional and statutory debate. It’s more of a policy debate
whether the public health risk is sufficient to warrant” a crackdown on
those violating public health laws, Morley said.”
IT ABSOLUTELY IS A “CONSTITUTIONAL” ISSUE.
The LAW states that you have the RIGHT to kill someone, if necessary, to RESIST AN UNLAWFUL ARREST.
The LAW does not allow for you to be “arrested” for not wearing a mask or for not “self-isolating”.
The is NO PROOF that any of this NONSENSE does any good or that the Covid is anywhere near as serious as Fauci claims.
3 years ago
“Any general deterrence is always one goal of law enforcement,” Morley said, noting that the arrests could “encourage other people to comply with the law.””
Sounds like something that would have been said to Jews in Germany during the reign of the Nazis.
3 years ago
Arrest the vile neighbor who took the video!
3 years ago
This is truly bizarre. They might have been simply handed a free mask, politely asked to use it. But this is ridiculous.
3 years ago
Reporting your neighbors for violating an edict. No law was broken. The tattletale did the reich thing.
3 years ago
Forcibly quarantining people who have dangerous diseases is nothing new, whether or not COVID-19 qualifies as such a disease is debatable.
The actions of Typhoid Mary (an asymptomatic carrier of Typhoid) led directly to the deaths of 3 people (she worked as a cook) and infected dozens of people with Typhoid:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/03/17/typhoid-mary-st-patricks-day-coronavirus/
3 years ago
“If the law allows someone to be arrested for violating a quarantine
order and they continue to thumb their nose at the law — yeah, they
should be arrested,” Veliz said.WRONG dill weed. It is not a law. It is not law till it introduced debated voted and passed by both state legislatures and signed by the governor. THEN it becomes law. SO…what is next? Not black enough Not brown enough? To many moles? Against health “policy.” Off you go. However the LBJQSTUV crowd gets a pass on spreading HIV. Remember Dr. Phony Fauci the runt is been working an HIV/AIDS vaccine for 40 years. Ah…nothing yet.
