Florida, United States.
Miami Beach (US) authorities are holding two detainees young tourists arrived in the city on the occasion of the spring break, or “spring break”, Accused of drugging and raping a woman who was dead encounter in your hotel room.
Evoire Collier, 21, who is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday, and Dorian Taylor, 24, both residents of North Carolina, Face theft charges with violence, sexual assault, petty theft and fraudulent use of credit card, according to the court file to which Efe had access.
The two men, who have been in custody since Sunday in a county jail Miami-Dade, Could face more serious charges if forensic examination confirms that the drugs used to sedate the 24 – year – old girl from Pennsylvania (USA), they caused her died from overdose.
According to the court document, the woman was found semi-naked and lifeless last Thursday at hotel room in which he was staying, located in the tourist neighborhood of South Beach, where for a month there crowds of young people for the “spring break” holidays and where several excesses have occurred.
“A green pill”
The two young men allegedly used the credit cards of the victim in premises of South Beach. When they were arrested by the Police they had the cards and the girl’s phone.
Surveillance cameras showed the two young men entering with the woman in hotel room, which they left an hour laters without the victim.
Collier confessed to officers who arrested him Saturday that he and Taylor met the woman at a local restaurant, gave her a “Green Pill”, that detectives suspect is the powerful painkiller Percocet, and went to the hotel for having sex.
The woman was knocked unconscious and the two young men steal belongings of the victim, included credit cards which they used in various trades of Miami Beach.
the arrest is known at times that this southern city of Florida fights a battle against the crowds of young tourists and others in the state who walk around without masks, in addition to various disorders that have motivated the arrest of more than a thousand people since last February 3rd.
Last weekend, officers had to struggle to control a crowd that did not even respect the rules of prevention of the covid-19 nor the curfew in effect from Saturday, which will run until April 12th.
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The use of panel staff SWAT (Weapons and Special Tactics) and pepper bullets during operations to enforce the curfew over the weekend has been criticized by some African-American leaders, who consider it excessive to repress college students, mostly black.
the curfew, which runs from 8 pm until 6 am, from Thursday to Sunday, includes the closing of whats bars and restaurants in a wide area of South Beach, South of Miami Beach.
During these hours, the three access viaducts to the south of the island of Miami Beach: MacArthur, Venetian and Julia Tuttle, to prevent the entry of these students, which has dissatisfied residents and workers in the area. EFE