KEY POINTS

  • Dorian Taylor and Evoire Collier face multiple charges
  • They allegedly used the victim's credit cards to pay for their trip
  • One of them admitted to giving the victim a green pill

Two spring breakers from North Carolina allegedly drugged, raped and robbed a woman who later died in a Miami beach hotel, authorities have said.

The two men, identified as 24-year-old Dorian Taylor and 21-year-old Evoire Collier, are facing charges of burglary, sexual battery and a number of other crimes, court records have revealed. Surveillance footage shows Taylor and Collier going into the Albion Hotel with a woman, reported NBC 6 South Florida. After half an hour, the two men left the hotel. They were later apprehended.

The arrests come as the police and officials are struggling to handle hordes of people going to the beaches amid pandemic restricitons since February. More than a thousand arrests have already been made since last month, prompting restrictions, including a curfew, that will stay in effect until mid-April.

A bond hearing was held for Taylor and Collier Monday. According to a prosecutor, the woman was too intoxicated when she went into the hotel with the two men so consent would not have been given to any of them. A bond amount has not been listed as of Monday evening and the two men are still being held in custody.

The time and reason for the woman's death have not been determined.

During the hearing, one of the men admitted to giving the woman a green pill that had an imprint that said "A30." A toxicology report is pending, so what the pill contained is still unknown.

According to a report from Miami Herald, Taylor and Collier stole the victim's credit cards and used them to pay for their South Beach trip.

The victim, who was visiting from Pennsylvania, was alone when she traveled to the Miami Beach area, a relative said as per NBC Miami 6 South Florida.

The two men's attorneys have not responded to requests for comments, NBC News said in a report.

At the bond hearing, there was a woman who claimed to be Collier's older sister and legal guardian. She pleaded that Collier was not one to get into trouble and that she was shocked by the charges against him.

People dance on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach, on March 17, 2021
People dance on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach, on March 17, 2021 AFP / CHANDAN KHANNA