The Bronx man who infected Hawaiians for not obeying a compulsory quarantine when he arrived within the Aloha State — and was arrested for it — will not be getting any love from again dwelling.
“He had no enterprise going there,” an irritated Marcia Peters stated of her son, Tarique Peters. “The principles are throughout. I informed him to not journey. I informed him to not go. I informed him to cancel all his trip (plans) as a result of he is aware of what’s happening in America and throughout.”
Peters was arrested Friday by brokers with the Hawaii lawyer basic’s workplace and charged with violating the state’s strict guidelines that vacationers observe a 14-day quarantine after arriving.
As an alternative, Peters landed in Honolulu Monday and got down to discover the island. He was caught after posting photographs of himself on social media on the seaside, sunbathing, browsing and strolling round Waikiki, prompting indignant locals to name authorities.
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Peters was being held on $4,000 bail and his mother stated he might have to chill his heels within the slammer.
“The place am I going to get $4,000 from? I don’t know that he has $4,000. He ain’t wealthy like that. We gonna should work one thing out,” she stated.
Peters stated her son, who usually “does the best factor,” works and attends Mercy Faculty.
A lady who informed The Put up she was Peters’ sister, however refused to present her title, stated she was upset that Hawaiian authorities had made public her brother’s arrest.
“Why put his info everywhere in the web the place persons are placing all kinds of threats subsequent to his footage,” stated the sister, who stated she works in in regulation enforcement and lives within the Bronx. “One thing like that would result in suicide.”
She stated the household had been unable to speak to Peters since his arrest.
“What sort of remedy is that? I discovered about it final night time,” she stated.
Peters’ social media posts had been persevering with to attract hate Saturday.
“Risking your individual life for the bragging rights is your online business so be my visitor. Risking different folks’s lives is simply plain reckless. You don’t have that proper,” one Instagram person posted below a photograph of Peters standing on a seaside holding a surfboard.
One other Instagram person stated “How is jail?” below a photograph Peters snapped of a sundown.
“Methods to be well-known for all of the fallacious causes!” one other stated.
Hawaiian authorities stated they’d not have an replace on the case till Monday.
Extra reporting by Melissa Klein