Jeremy Flores Charged for Fiancée’s Death in San Pedro

Tonight, a tourist from Texas, Isaac Jeremy Flores, is out on ten thousand dollars bail after a magistrate in San Pedro granted it on Monday. Initially, there was a warrant to remand him to prison until he could post bail with Belizean surety. However, attorney Dickie Bradley stepped in late this evening to secure his release. Flores, thirty-nine, was vacationing in San Pedro with his fiancée, Jennifer Dawn Hernandez, forty, when a tragic incident occurred on December sixth. While driving a golf cart on Secret Beach Road, Flores hit a bump, causing Hernandez to fall out and suffer fatal injuries. Three days later, on December ninth, Flores was charged with four traffic offenses: causing death by careless conduct, reckless driving, driving without due care and attention, and failing to provide a specimen for analysis. He appeared before Magistrate Tehru-Ann Brown in San Pedro Magistrate’s Court. Attorney Richard “Dickie” Bradley explained that the prosecutor objected to bail, citing Flores as a flight risk and strong police evidence. Despite this, Bradley successfully argued for bail, set at ten thousand dollars with one Belizean surety or two sureties of five thousand dollars each. Police suspect Flores had been consuming alcohol at the time of the incident. Flores mentioned he has yet to speak with Hernandez’s family and assist with her funeral arrangements.

 

Richard “Dickie” Bradley, Attorney-at-law

“Mr. Isaac Flores is part of a group that came to visit Belize and on Friday night an unfortunate incident occurred where I have gone to the island, I’ve seen the photos.  He was driving a golf cart with the person he was supposed to propose to, and even the police are confirming that they hit a bump in the road.  As a consequence, the young lady fell off the golf cart.  They did everything they could but she passed away.  So, Mr. Isaac, he’s not fully himself right now, he’s gone through quite a traumatic experience.  He was charged for a number of offenses, not driving properly, causing death by careless conduct and so forth.

 

Isaac Flores

“First time leaving the country and traveling out of the country together.  It’s my first time being in Belize.”

 

Reporter

“So you are saying that you have not been able to speak, you have been in custody since Friday.”

 

Isaac Flores

“Yes, I haven’t been able to contact the family, I haven’t been able to make arrangements, but thankful for others in the group, two of them that are still here that have communicated with the family.  I’ve been incarcerated with no access to communicate to anybody in the States.  And that’s what hurts the most, I gotta go back home.”