Bodycam: Model High on ‘Pink Cocaine’ Resists Officers After Double Killing

they're coming we're taking a closer look at the nearly incoherent ramblings of a woman who police say caused a chain reaction crash in Miami while she was high in what's called pink cocaine this as she faces even more charges we're going to discuss the evidence against her with trial attorney Alexis Rosenberg welcome to sidebar presented by law and crime I'm Jesse Weber [Music] Macy Marie lathers calls herself an Instagram model posting seductive photos of herself seemingly in the hopes of maybe getting jobs at parties and events in the Miami area but police say her decision to speed through an intersection and slam into another car might put her behind bars for a long time that is the allegation that she is facing and we are getting a look at what First Responders were dealing with as they responded to this dead crash at around 6:45 a.m. on August 10th body cam video shows the wreckage of three cars investigators say lathers was driving around 80 M an hour in a white Mercedes with her foot on the gas pedal 100% when she allegedly ran a red light and crashed into a black Range Rover and that Collision caused the SUV to smash into a Suzuki two people in that car were killed in this crash identified by family as Abraham Ismael Molina Cruz and his friend Jesus Rubio Abraham's partner Wanita Hernandez was also in the crash but she survived she says they were just on their way to work when this happened and the driver of the Range Rover also survived this crash now La crime we have obtained body cam footage from Miami Police that shows an officer's arrival at what is truly a chaotic scene where First Responders are working to remove at least one person from the crushed car and a block away the officer finds one of his colleagues guarding a woman who is laying on the ground with her hands cuffed behind her back and that is 24-year-old Macy lathers and she appears to moan and seems to roll around in pain and is really unsure of what exactly is going on now Witnesses would later tell police that she walked away from the crash her crashed mercedesbenz that she tried to leave the scene entirely but they stopped her and the officers are trying to figure out if lathers has any injuries and that's when she reveals that she took a drug known as tusi or pink cocaine now if you don't know what that is according to an NYU medical school report that was published in 2023 this is usually a combination of a lot of different drugs ketamine ecstasy cocaine meth opioids other psychoactives it's a synthetic drug researchers say that it's pink color it's just for look so don't be surprised take a look at this video ma'am she's what hey hey hey chill out relax relax [Music] [Music] reference I need rescue here to check on one of the passengers in the vehicle Miami and Miami on the south left corner black shirt blue just stay like relax stay on your left cuz you're thr up stay like that look that way ma'am can you stay over there looking that [Music] way no she be sideways ma'am relax [Music] she's good I think you were involved in the crash she probably won't be able to walk does anything hurt you who who had heard the thing [Music] yeah am more okay the other car I didn't one is my mole my Mo ma'am what car are you driving my name is Mercedes is it my name is Mercedes Mercedes calm down calm down calm down calm down I'm from the future awesome amazing oh Crystal are you on drugs what do you want oh I me though if you know that we have the team you canice fire rescue got told she just told us now she's on TR so she's uh she's going to be one of the vehicles that got into a collision she's cing she's on two is this unrelated yeah no it's related they had her detained she's with the white Mercedes they got head or neck pain had no neck pain she she trying to leave your right arm up she she's okay all all right we'll set her up we're going to assess her try to make sure she's not like okay' relaxx I told you to relax get up get her get her upak she's on she from the future okay hold on get her there tried to leave the SC all right I'm just going to need an officer to come with yeah got got they coming com now according to the state LA's toxicology report found that there was no alcohol in her system but there was a variety of drugs by the way as we hear cases like this and we think about what defendants arguments will be in court especially in cases where the evidence can seem quite overwhelming it just shows you in my opinion the importance of having really good lawyers right we talk about that all the time while with that in mind how could I not quickly call out another great Law Firm Morgan and Morgan our proud sponsor here on sidebar look the truth is if you should get injured this firm with over a thousand attorneys maybe who you want in your corner they're America's largest injury Law Firm for a reason they win a lot Morgan Morgan clients they only get a legal team but they get case investigators power legals 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the influence of 2C a known party drug and that she was from the future and had a crystal ball and she was placed in the recovery position until fire rescue arrived because she was vomiting and so um victim one had to be extracted from the vehicle three and was transported to the hospital r or trauma and in critical condition and was l dis pronounced decease due to his injuries victim two was removed from vehicle 3 and transported to Jackson with facial and arm lacerations vehicle victim 3 was pronounced deceased on the scene um by the fire rescue victim four was transported to jmh with in stable condition so there's two people that died and two that were injured she the vehicle was registered to her but she doesn't have a Florida's driver's license and a further search revealed that under her date of birth and name she has a Florida driver's license and it was suspended indefinitely January 16th of 2024 so that's what this case is about after prosecutors got the data from a vehicle search warrant they added more charges and that data showed just how fast lathers was driving at the time of the crash and that she really didn't let up on the accelerator the speed limit on that stretch of road is our understanding to be 30 m an hour but the car's computer apparently showed that lathers had been going 57 mph and then sped up to nearly 80 miles per hour before impact lathers had been given $140,000 Bond at her bond hearing which she posted her attorney says that she was preparing to leave detention when she was hit with the additional charges so 26 ,000 was added to the previous bail amount plus stricter rules for LA's house arrest and she had been out on bond for a couple of weeks when she was once again back in court and this time she was put in cuffs and hauled off to jail and that is because prosecutors added two new DUI manslaughter charges for allegedly driving under the influence and reporters in the courtroom say that LS seem to look surprised that she had to sit with other inmates in court for their hearings prosecut did some rearranging of the charges against lathers and she now faces 10 counts and we double checked with the Miami dat County and these are the charges that we see two counts of DUI manslaughter for the deaths of Ismael and Rubio which includes the aggravating factor of failure to render Aid one count of DUI causing bodily injury to another one count of reckless driving causing Serious injury three counts of driving without a driver's license resulting in injury or death two counts of vehicular homicide caused by failure to stop one count of leaving the scene of an accident involving death Wanita Hernandez was also in court this past week when lathers was taken into custody and she told local Outlet NBC 6 that it was a horrible feeling seeing her and that she didn't look remorseful she said the defendant is a danger to society lathers has pleaded not guilty to all charges she's sued back in court again next week for a pre-trial detention hearing now I want to bring on Florida trial attorney Rosenberg uh Alexis good to see you thanks for coming on my understanding is you are in Fort Lauderdale not too far from Miami um just starting off when we talk about tusi when we talk about pink cocaine is that prevalent in that area is that something that people talk about thank you for having me on first of all well Miami the area of Miami when it comes to the club scene it does seem to be have a history of being a leader in these type of club drugs so pink cocaine is um what they refer to as a club drug and this drug as you kind of touched upon is a combination of drugs which you brought up as very interesting because she didn't have any alcohol in her system yeah no she didn't have any alcohol in her system so it seems like it's really we're focusing on the TC on the drug which which makes me think how she's going to defend herself and I'll get to that in a second but first I want to go to this new development this new footage that came out how does this footage affect the case well the new I mean it's going to be a it appears to be that it's going to be a very much of an uphill battle for whoever is defending this case because now we have footage right after um and of her State and how she was not just the testimony that would ultimately come out if there's a trial about what what she was saying and how she was acting I think that there is a lot of damaging evidence against her I mean just her admissions which they're going to have a hard time keeping out as well as the stage she was in and the pictures I mean the pictures of these vehicles are really really going to be impactful on a jury what would be a defense here the only defense that I could possibly think of is that she didn't actually ingest the drugs that meaning that intentionally maybe somebody spiked her drink or something of that nature and she didn't know but the thing was she does make that admission and during that admission she doesn't say that she thinks somebody put something in her drink or during the admission that I don't know you know I'm not feeling right she knew exactly what that you know she had taken and ingested so that would still be a very much of a upheld battle as well the reason I say that is because there's a case that came out and now I look at drug induced crimes very differently it was the Brin speter case this woman stabbed a man over a hundred times and she had a marijuana induced psychosis and in that case yes she was convicted of manslaughter but the judge ended up sentencing her to probation not prison so now I look at all these cases a little bit differently and I think it matters in terms of what was ingested how was it ingested what did you know of this drug so obviously we're still developing some of the facts here there could be a fact pattern I'm not saying it's true but there could be a fact pattern where she says you know I didn't realize I ingested 2C but I've taken it before so I knew what it was I knew what the effect was on me um maybe that's why she said yeah I'm I'm high on 2C but do you think that that could be um a possibility where you take this drug you might not know the effects it would have you don't anticipate the effects that it would have and you get behind the wheel you cause a terrible crash you don't mean to walk away not to say that she wouldn't be found guilty but maybe she wouldn't necessarily go to prison or go to prison for many years I don't know you tell me well I think that would that case is slightly different in the the sense that marijuana generally overall uh does not have the effect of um making you go and stab somebody like that so I think that that was a there was a stronger argument to be made that that was extremely unus usual um under those circumstances however in this case this is a cocktail of drugs that a going in you pretty much it it you know don't know you're playing Russian roulette in a way because you don't really know what exactly is in it and you're going in that with open with open eyes as well as some of the effects that she had the hallucinations and things of those nature that we're that are coming out are consistent with um you know that particular drug now getting behind the car and driving fast and hallucinating we would hope she wouldn't get behind the wheel but the hallucinations would be consistent with what you were trying to achieve if you were trying to take this drug and taking as if she really was husing talking about aliens and things like that that she's from the future would make sense why was she hit with uh the Dy manslaughter charges now and what do you have to prove in order to get a conviction for those so they were waiting the St of attorney because they wanted the toxicology to come back to show what was in her system and the levels that were in her system um like you had mentioned you know initially the police officers weren't sure if she was manifesting what the way she was initially because she was injured you know they really didn't know what was going on because it's not unheard of if somebody uh you know hits their head and has a concussion it can manifest in different in different ways so um you know they weren't sure about that that so they were waiting that was the main reason for that I mean the manslaughter the uh vehicular homicide in Florida is pretty easy to prove in the sense that we have that you were you know um driving recklessly uh I think that's going to be easy and someone basically died due to it so I don't think there's no intent you don't have to have the intent that you want to harm somebody um it really is they get through the that way that you had the intent to get behind the wheel and then you acted in the manner that you acted and because of that somebody died so I mean that's going to be based on the facts that we're hearing unless something else comes out um you know that's going to be pretty easy for the prosecution to get a conviction on that and what is she looking at in terms of a potential punishment my understanding and correct me if I'm wrong the manslaughter could be what four to 30 years in prison but she's also hit with numerous charges so what she could she potentially be looking at if she's convicted across the board well the vehicular manslaughter is a maximum of 15 so um but she's looking at with all of these potentially 30 years that's a long long time now unfortunately I mean because we do have two individuals that are deceased the likelihood of even if she was convicted by a jury that she would be sentenced to that is pretty low I mean it it really is pretty low um I don't believe why do you say that why do you say that considering two lives were taken and what is arguably you know she hasn't been found guilty yet but what is clearly a senseless case they were on their way to work and you the allegation of some girl who's high on uh you know this synthetic drug just slams right into them killing them I mean is 30 years outside the realm of possibility I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility but generally overall if you look at sentencing that in that area that's not customary I mean we do this has gotten a lot of media attention so um it may be that first of all likelihood is this isn't going to go to a trial she's probably going to take a flea but um that being said I think it hasn't come out I believe she didn't really have a prior record other than the suspended license now the court is going to take that into consideration for sure um if we get to the sentencing phase but whether she's a prior record is going to be calculated into that as well I'm assuming that she would also put forth different individuals that would come forward and say she's an amazing human being and this was just a mess up or she was a drug you know had a dependency issue I um and and if I was her attorney I would advise her to get in a rehab right now because really that when it comes to sentencing is going to be a huge thing you know are you acknowledging you had a dependency issue as well as are are you seeking treatment what would be a deal what would a deal look like you know a de I definitely think the deal in this situation is going to include actually her serving some time I'm not seeing that they're going to offer a deal that she doesn't serve some sort of time the question is how much time is she going to serve I mean I'm just not like we've we've been discussing this what are her defenses her defenses really are okay somebody put something in her drink possibly they could try at sentencing what you said about reducing it because she didn't realize she was going to react that way but now she's all over social media as well that we've got her appearing like she's partying pretty much all the time in some form or and so that could potentially come in as well if she tries to play that or argue that she you know had never done this before this drug but now we have posts where she's out on Yachts um you know drinks in her hands she she's really seems to appear from her social media that she was in that scene I was going to ask you if any of that social media content would make its way in that's an interesting perspective about now obviously defense would say it's irrelevant it's prejudicial um bond hearing you talk about the idea of she should get herself in a rehab uh she's currently in jail there's going to be a bond hearing next week what do you think the likelihood is uh that her defense could mount a successful argument that she should be out pending trial under the circumstances I don't think they're going to win that um but related to the um you know going for help going to rehab her attorney can file a motion and ask that she's able to do that the likelihood is the coure depending on the type of um place that she was seeking to go um would probably grant that um in my experience they want to support that and it's just a question of how restrictive that is that you know she can't come and go check herself out and they would put parameters about that well to end this and to put a bow on this and going back to the victims in this case there has been this GoFundMe that has been set up um and Miss Hernandez who I mentioned wrote this and I want everybody to hear this Abraham's son just 16 years old has been left without the love and care of his father who was his whole world due to my injuries and I am unable to work at the moment and the young man's life has changed radically his mother who lives in Nicaragua and suffers from Parkinson's is also now grieving helpless and without the financial support her son provided again just a really tragic situation sad situation we will see how it progresses whether a plea deal will actually happen um and in the immediate future to see if she's out on bond next week Alexis Rosenberg thank you so much for coming on really appreciate it thank you for having me all right everybody that's all we have for you right now here on sidebar thank you so much for joining us and as always please subscribe on Apple podcast Spotify YouTube wherever you get your podcasts I'm Jesse Weber I'll speak to you next time [Music]