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Chris Gothner, Digital Journalist

Published: August 22, 2024 at 1:18 PM

Updated: August 22, 2024 at 1:36 PM

Tags: Miami, Miami-Dade County, Crime, Maecee Marie Lathers

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Maecee Lathers appears in Miami-Dade bond court Thursday. (Miami-Dade Courts)

MIAMI – Social media model Maecee Marie Lathers was back in Miami-Dade bond court Thursday to face four new charges in connection with a crash that killed two people in downtown Miami in mid-August. Authorities said she told them she was a time-traveler and high on a party drug.

Prosecutors said the new charges come as a result of a vehicle data search warrant which showed that Lathers, 24, of Miami Gardens, had her foot firmly on the gas pedal, driving nearly 80 mph at the time of the Aug. 10 wreck.

She’s now facing two counts each of reckless vehicular homicide and reckless driving causing serious bodily injury. She was already facing eight other charges, including two counts of leaving the scene of a crash causing death, and first appeared in bond court on Friday, following her release from Jackson Memorial Hospital.

Prosecutors have said they will likely charge her with DUI manslaughter as well, pending the results of a toxicology test.

Police said Lathers, whose license had been suspended since January, was speeding in a white Mercedes-Benz sedan south on North Miami Avenue just after 6:45 a.m. when she blew a red light at Eighth Street and slammed into a black Range Rover.

Photo of Maecee Marie Lathers during a previous appearance in court (background) along with her Instagram profile photo (top middle) and her Miami-Dade County mug shot (bottom middle).

Photo of Maecee Marie Lathers during a previous appearance in court (background) along with her Instagram profile photo (top middle) and her Miami-Dade County mug shot (bottom middle). (MDCR/Instagram: @maecee_marie/Miami-Dade Courts)

According to a new arrest report from the Miami Police Department, the vehicle’s data recorders showed she was driving 57 mph five seconds before the crash, accelerating to 78 mph at the moment of impact. The speed limit on that stretch of street is 30 mph.

Both vehicles then collided with a Suzuki sedan with three people inside, police said.

The rear passenger of the Suzuki died at the scene while its driver died at JMH, the arrest report states.

Family members, on a GoFundMe page, identified one of the victims as Abraham Ismael, the father of a 16-year-old son. His partner, Juanita Hernández, was hurt in the crash.

Lathers and the Range Rover driver were also hurt.

Authorities said onlookers had to grab Lathers as she walked away from the scene.

Police said she would tell officers she was under the influence of “tusi,” a party drug, and “that she was from the future and had a crystal ball,” Miami-Dade Judge Mindy Glazer said in Lathers’ last bond court appearance on Friday.

Tusi, or 2C, is described in a 2023 medical journal article as “a new ketamine concoction” also known as “pink cocaine.” That same year, Local 10 News produced a special report on the “nightclub narcotic,” said at the time to be the number one drug seized at Miami International Airport.

Glazer, in giving her a $140,000 bond, house arrest and a no-drive order last Friday, called Lathers “an absolute danger to the community.”

On Thursday morning, Lathers faced Senior Judge Rosa Figarola to answer to the new charges. This time, she appeared wearing a standard orange jail jumpsuit rather than an anti-suicide vest.

The model, whose Instagram posts typically depict the upstate New York native with eyes on the camera and posing seductively, looked down throughout the entire proceeding, appearing sullen.

Lathers’ attorney, Martez Gordon, on Zoom from a hospital parking lot, said the hearing “came out of the blue” and that he wasn’t notified.

“This is an ambush, your honor,” Gordon said.

A prosecutor replied, “It’s not an ambush. There (are) just additional charges that are being filed based on the same underlying incident.”

Eventually, Gordon, who said Lathers had posted her $140,000 bond and was set to “get out either today or tomorrow,” asked Figarola to set a standard $20,000 bond on top of the preexisting bond.

Prosecutors wanted a higher amount and a higher level of house arrest.

“The case is not really a standard case,” the prosecutor said. “She killed two people.”

Figarola replied, “I’m not downplaying that in any way, shape or form.”

She set a slightly increased $26,000 bond and ordered Lathers on a stricter level of house arrest.

Lathers remained in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center as of Thursday; court records show she’s scheduled to be arraigned on Sept. 3.

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Comment by Miami-Mac-Daddy.

Miami-Mac-Daddy

51 min ago

Model? edited

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Comment by Beach44.

Beach44

1 hr ago

Did she get charged for impersonating a model?

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Comment by grandma1.

grandma1

1 hr ago

Oh, and Martez, the real ambush was the people your client slammed into at 78 mph, leaving 2 dead. Your client should have no bond. House arrest is a joke. Who's going to watch her?

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Comment by Jay Ph.

Jay Ph

1 hr ago

Is her model agency OnlyFlans?

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Reply by Miami-Mac-Daddy.

Miami-Mac-Daddy

55 min ago

Reply to Jay Ph

You know it is.

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Comment by grandma1.

grandma1

1 hr ago

This should be a "NO BOND" case. She killed 2 innocent people because of her misdeeds, irresponsibility and total disregard for human life. There is no reason to let her go home. Her actions resulted in 2 people never going home--in addition to all of their family members losing their loved ones.

People bonding out in So. FL is out of control. I was a lifelong resident of Dade County and many people were held with no bond for lesser crimes, and with justification.

Society has become wild, out of control, especially in our bigger cities. Serious crime is at an all-time high and yet people are bonding out left and right, with ridiculously low, random amounts. This certainly doesn't even serve as a deterrent for others, either.

This miscreant will be out again, partying back in her scene in no time. What an injustice, especially to the 2 people she killed driving on drugs while speeding at 78 mph in a 30 mph area.....48 mph above the speed limit. This is a true shame on our justice system.

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Comment by AC.

1 hr ago

Pink, as the bing on your cherry

Pink, 'cause you are so very

Pink, it's the color of passion

'Cause today it just goes with the fashion

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Comment by Bobby Tomasevich.

Bobby Tomasevich

2 hrs ago

Model? Yeah, I guess nowadays, anyone can be a model with the right filters…

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Comment by Rob D'Chambre.

Rob D'Chambre

3 hrs ago

A model for lifetime behind bars.

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Comment by German A.

German A

3 hrs ago

Excuse me? A what ? A model?

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Comment by Mike60.

Mike60

4 hrs ago

Poor choices have consequences.

See above.

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Reply by shecares.

shecares

17 min ago

Reply to Mike60

plain and simple

most should understand this

so why dont they?

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