Bloody hair transplant gets Las Vegas man booted from plane: Report
Eugenio Ernesto Hernandez-Garnier charged after refusing to change bandages, leave plane
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A Las Vegas man with a bloody head wound and his travel companion were booted from a flight in Miami after he refused to change the bandages from what he said was a hair transplant.
An arrest report obtained by Local 10 News said the man had boarded an American Airlines flight to Las Vegas at Miami International Airport before the flight crew noticed he was bleeding from the forehead and had a bloody bandage covering his wound.
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Eugenio Ernesto Hernandez-Garnier, 27, was asked to clean the wound and replace the bandage, but he told staff he didn’t have one, Miami-Dade police said via Local 10 News.
The arrest report said Hernandez-Garnier was asked to deboard the plane “multiple times” over concerns about his health and possible bodily fluid contamination. But Hernandez-Garnier and travel companion Yusleydis Blanca Loyola, 32, also of Las Vegas, refused and said, “if they could not fly, no one else can either.”
They refused again when police arrived to respond to the “unruly passenger,” the arrest report cited by Local News 10 said, and again when warned they could be arrested for trespassing.
Loyola livestreamed the incident on TikTok, reportedly yelling at officers that Hernandez-Garnier just had surgery.
“After a brief moment of resisting to be handcuffed, they were subsequently placed under arrest,” the arrest report said, before being taken to a hospital and the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
Hernandez-Garnier told NBC 6 South Florida that he was returning home from a hair transplant and liposuction and had paperwork from a doctor clearing him to fly. When Hernandez-Garnier confronted staff, he said he was told that, “You need to go out because somebody don’t like what you have on your head.”
He also told NBC 6 that he had a “lot of pain” in his head when he was released from jail.
Police said Hernandez-Garnier and Loyola were charged with trespassing and resisting an officer without violence.
“This could have all been avoided if they would have just followed the commands or the request of the officers to vacate the aircraft,” Miami-Dade police spokesperson Argemis Colome told NBC 6.
As for their threat that “if they could not fly, no one else can either,” other passengers were asked to deboard the plane as well before the flight was delayed.
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