Surgeon general, aide shouldn’t be prosecuted, tour guide says
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams and his aide, whom police cited at an Oahu beach park in late August for allegedly violating an emergency order during a shutdown of the island’s beach parks, should not be prosecuted, said an attorney who spoke on behalf of a tour guide who took the men to the park.
“Why are they going after the admiral who came here to help us?” said attorney Eric Seitz, who is representing Kelmer Beck. “It’s just outrageous.”
A jury trial potentially may be held in the coming months for Adams and his aide, Dennis Anderson-Villaluz, for the alleged emergency order violation, a misdemeanor punishable by up to a $5,000 fine, a year in jail or both. Attorney Michael Green is representing the two men.
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