An Instagram model, accused of killing two people while high on “pink cocaine,” is now facing additional criminal charges.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, Miami-Dade Police arrested Maecee Lathers, 24, on August 11, a day after she allegedly ran a red light at North Miami Avenue around 7 a.m. and crashed her Mercedes into a Range Rover, which then collided with a sedan.
The rear passenger in the sedan died at the scene. The driver, identified as Abraham Ismael, was pulled from the wreckage and later died at a hospital. His wife, Juanita Hernández, who was in the passenger seat, and the driver of the Range Rover were both hospitalized.
Lathers was initially charged with leaving the scene of a crash. On August 22, prosecutors added new charges, including two counts of vehicular homicide and two counts of reckless driving, according to court records.
Law&Crime reports that Lathers allegedly accelerated to 78 mph at the moment of impact, after driving at 57 mph seconds before the crash. She had her “accelerator at 100%,” police said.
Security footage captured Lathers walking away from the scene before witnesses pulled her back to the scene, according to a police report.
When police arrived, they noticed that Lathers appeared to be under the influence and questioned her.
“She advised she was under the influence of ‘2C’ a known party drug and that she was from the future and had a crystal ball,” JFlorida 11th Circuit Court Judge Mindy S. Glazer read from the report during court last week.
During the same hearing, Glazer called Lathers “an absolute danger to the community,” while reading the report.
“She’s an absolute danger to the community based on killing or driving when she shouldn’t have been in a car, and she’s clearly impaired based on her statements,” the judge said. “And if it wasn’t for the citizens or witnesses nearby who stopped her, she would have completely fled.”
Judge Glazer agreed to place her under house arrest, should Lathers post a $140,000 bond. She was also ordered not to drive.
Meanwhile, a GoFundMe fundraiser has been set up for Hernandez, who he left behind a teen son.
“I am now unable to work due to my injuries, and the boy’s life has been turned upside down,” his wife wrote on GoFundMe. “His mother, who lives in Nicaragua, suffers from Parkinson’s disease and is now not only grieving but also left without the financial support her son provided.”
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[Featured image: Maecee Marie Lathers/Miami Gardens Police; Instagram]
