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Passengers Attempt To Skip Hawaii Quarantine With Worker Bribe
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Two passengers arriving in Hawaii tried to bribe their way out of the state’s mandatory 10-day quarantine. The two travelers offered an airport screener a total of $3,000 to let them leave without going into quarantine. They were promptly arrested and flown back to the mainland after the screener informed authorities.
Hawaii’s Safe Travels program requires travelers to quarantine for 10 days without a negative COVID test. Photo: Getty Images
Passengers arrested after offering screener a bribe
Johntrell White, 29, and Nadia Bailey, 28, both from Louisiana, arrived at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport in Honolulu last Friday. Under Hawaii’s rules, both travelers were required to complete a 10-day quarantine as neither had a negative COVID test or exemption.
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What happened when I went to Hawaii, but my test results didn t make it before arrival
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The view from within: Kauai as seen from inside the hotel room.Courtesy of Ellie Bozmarova
On November 18, 2020, two weeks before Governor Gavin Newsom issued a new stay-at-home order for California, my partner and I donned our masks and boarded a plane from San Francisco with Kauai, HI as our destination.
Neither of us had received our required pre-travel COVID-19 test results yet, and one of us was about to go into mandatory quarantine. Hawaii’s Safe Travels Program, the online registration system required for all travelers to Hawaii, stated we needed to have taken our tests within 72 hours of the final leg of our flight. We had both taken nasal swab COVID-19 tests earlier that week three days before for him, two for me. He had taken his test at CVS while I had taken mine at Kaiser Permanente.