A fast PSA for unvaccinated people on the lookout for a weekend getaway: if you happen to attempt forging your data to journey, you would possibly wind up with a hefty tremendous as a substitute.

That’s what occurred to 1 Florida couple that was arrested after they stepped off the airplane in Honolulu final week. NBC Miami first reported that the pair —43-year-outdated Enzo Dalmazzo and 31-year-outdated Daniela Dalmazzo—had been each charged with violating Hawaii’s Safe Travels mandates by falsifying their vaccine playing cards. On high of that, Daniella was slapped with two further costs for submitting further pretend docs for every of their children.

Those children, it’s price mentioning, had been 4 and 5 years outdated—far too younger to get vaccinated (at least right now). Despite the truth that many home airways would allow them to board anyway, their dad and mom determined to cross the pair off as two vaccinated 12-year-olds as a substitute, with vaccine playing cards to show it.

But as a result of five-year-olds and 12-year-olds look fairly darn totally different, airport authorities determined to look into the authenticity of their playing cards. “The screener at the airport, when they came through, noticed an anomaly about the age of the children and the vaccine, and that’s how we got involved,” a consultant with the Hawaii Attorney General informed NBC.

Where the couple bought these playing cards continues to be an open query. Earlier this week, the Department of Justice charged a Chicago pharmacist who was alleged to have bought over vaccine playing cards over eBay, only a month after the company caught a California-based homeopathic physician promoting clean playing cards to her sufferers.

Violating any of Hawaii’s COVID-19 protocols is classed as a misdemeanor by native authorities and one that may saddle vacationers with fines of as much as $5,000 or a year-long jail sentence. Hawaiian information shops reported that the Dalmazzo’s shared an $8,000 tremendous and posted bail. Hopefully, they’ll contemplate really getting the free jab earlier than their subsequent household trip.