Charges against Eugenio Ernesto Hernandez-Garnier after he refused to change bandages and leave the plane
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A Las Vegas man with a bleeding head wound and his travel companion were barred from a flight in Miami because the man refused to change the bandages of an alleged hair transplant.
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An arrest report obtained by Local 10 News said the man was boarding an American Airlines flight to Las Vegas at Miami International Airport when flight crew noticed he was bleeding from his forehead and his wound was covered with a bloody bandage.
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Eugenio Ernesto Hernandez-Garnier, 27, was asked to clean the wound and change the bandage, but he told staff he didn’t have one, Miami-Dade police reported via Local 10 News.
The arrest report said Hernandez-Garnier was asked to leave the plane “multiple times” because of concerns about his health and possible contamination from bodily fluids. But Hernandez-Garnier and his traveling companion Yusleydis Blanca Loyola, 32, also of Las Vegas, refused, saying, “If they can’t fly, no one else can.”
They refused again when police arrived to respond to the “unruly passenger,” according to the arrest report cited by Local News 10. And again when they were warned they could be arrested for trespassing.
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Loyola streamed the incident live on TikTok and reportedly yelled to officers that Hernandez-Garnier had just undergone surgery.
“After resisting handcuffs for a brief moment, they were subsequently arrested,” the arrest report states. They were then taken to a hospital and the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
Hernandez-Garnier told NBC 6 South Florida that he had returned home from a hair transplant and liposuction and had paperwork from a doctor clearing him to fly. When Hernandez-Garnier confronted staff, he was told, “You have to get out because someone doesn’t like what you have on your head.”
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He also told NBC 6 that he had “a lot of pain” in his head when he was released from prison.
According to police, Hernandez-Garnier and Loyola were charged with trespassing and resisting an officer without the use of violence.
“All of this could have been avoided if they had simply followed the officers’ instructions or requests to exit the aircraft,” Miami-Dade police spokesman Argemis Colome told NBC 6.
Their threat, “if they can’t fly, no one else can either,” was carried out. Other passengers were also asked to leave the plane before there were flight delays.
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