Florida couple jailed for breaking mandatory coronavirus quarantine

[TheComputerGroup]

A Florida couple was jailed for allegedly breaking a mandatory quarantine order after they tested positive for the coronavirus, local officials said Thursday.

Jose Antonio Freire Interian, 24, and Yohana Anahi Gonzalez, 27, were arrested Wednesday evening at their Key West apartment and taken to the Stock Island Detention Center, authorities said.

The Florida Department of Health in Monroe County had issued an isolation order on July 21 to the pair, instructing them to stay at home for 14 days and wear masks around others, The Miami Herald reported.

But neighbors complained that the carefree couple had been breaking the rules.

Freire was spotted walking his dog, making trips to the grocery store and washing his car, according to a police report. Both had been seen leaving and returning home without face coverings.

The property manager at their apartment complex reported them to Key West police, and handed over surveillance footage of the pair from a camera located in a common room, the Herald reported.

“An officer took the video to the judge and the judge signed the warrant,” Key West City Manager Greg Veliz told the newspaper.

The couple was charged with violating the state law that requires isolation or quarantine in a public health emergency and violating emergency management.

Both are second-degree misdemeanors, punishable by up to 60 days in jail.

Freire and Gonzalez were released from jail Thursday morning after posting $1,000 bond each.

During their stint behind bars, the couple was kept isolated from the other inmates in “negative pressure” rooms where the air is not recirculated into other areas of the jail, Monroe County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Adam Linhardt said.

“The whole idea is to keep them apart from the general population,” Linhardt said. “We’ve had people in those rooms before we’ve suspected of having it. If they show symptoms, that’s where people are quarantined.”



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[rush__man]

if everyone would do this where are they going to put everyone? sheep wake the F up and fight back against the nazi's!

 

[unusualsusp11]

If you get quarantined don't tell your neighbors. Then you can violate this foolish decree to your hearts content.

 

[Willie99]

If you're positive, I think you should take measures to protect others. Socially distance and absolutely wear masks because that's when masks become important

Sick people should stay home, ALWAYS. Or at least socially distance

Just like everyone should always wash your hands, but 2 out of 3 men don't wash their hands when leaving a public restroom

I don't condone what these people did. Albeit they were obviously asymptomatic which is the result for the overwhelming vast of Americans. They just might NOT take it all seriously

 

[rush__man]

If you're positive, I think you should take measures to protect others. Socially distance and absolutely wear masks because that's when masks become important

Sick people should stay home, ALWAYS. Or at least socially distance

Just like everyone should always wash your hands, but 2 out of 3 men don't wash their hands when leaving a public restroom

I don't condone what these people did. Albeit they were obviously asymptomatic which is the result for the overwhelming vast of Americans. They just might NOT take it all seriously

social distance and face diapers for what? a bad cold?

hydroxychloroquine has been a proven prevention. if sheep are that worried they need to get on it. open up everything for the rest of us. we don't care about cases of a bad cold.

 

[X-Files]

"[h=1]They were arrested and jailed for breaking a quarantine order. They’re not the first.[/h]...nationwide, they are hardly the only ones whose lax adherence to the rules has landed them in jail.

As the pandemic has spread across the United States, killing more than 148,000 people to date, police have on occasion locked up possible vectors of disease — those who are sick, or irresponsible, or both — to ensure the virus does not spread even further.

Earlier this month, a Kentucky woman and her husband were placed on house arrest after she refused to sign papers agreeing to quarantine herself. A man from New York was detained in South Carolina after he was discovered walking around in a hospital gown, just days after his trip down.

Hawaii, in particular, has taken a relentless approach to arresting people who violate the state’s strict quarantine orders: Travelers from any other state are required to isolate themselves for 14 days upon their arrival, and since the outbreak’s start, more than 180 people have been jailed for failing to do so, health officials said earlier this month.

“If you come to Hawai‘i with the expectation that you can ignore the self-quarantine order, you very likely will be reported, arrested and end up in jail facing hefty fines,” Clare Connors, the state’s attorney general, said in a May statement. “All of us must do our part to protect ourselves, our families, friends and guests.”


The Florida Keys were closed to outsiders for two months to contain the pandemic. But as they opened back up to the public in June, infections on the archipelago began to skyrocket.

...Health officials told them to wear face masks at home, too, to protect their three roommates from getting infected.

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[X-Files]

" It's astonishing that they don't get the seriousness of this pandemic, it's either that or they just don't care if they kill others. I'd throw their b-u-t-t-s in jail too."