{"id":159985,"date":"2026-02-18T16:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/159985\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T16:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:19:12","slug":"florida-man-convicted-in-deadly-crash-caused-by-teen-son-to-be-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/159985\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida man convicted in deadly crash caused by teen son to be sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; A Florida father convicted of manslaughter after allowing his unlicensed teen son to drive before a fatal crash in Osceola County in 2023 is expected be sentenced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/fox-local\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX LOCAL APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Richard Ferguson\u2019s son was driving the family\u2019s Chevy Impala without a license when it crashed into another vehicle on Sept. 3, 2023, killing four people\u2014a grandmother and her three grandchildren.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The crash happened at the intersection of Laurel Avenue and San Miguel Road in Poinciana.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SIGN-UP FOR FOX 35&#8217;S BREAKING NEWS, DAILY NEWS NEWSLETTERS<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">According to investigators, Ferguson\u2019s son was reportedly speeding and ran a stop sign before crashing into the side of a Honda HR-V driven by Trinidad Hernandez. Hernandez\u2019s grandchildren\u2014Mylie Cruz, 1; Marvin Cruz, 9; and Anayari Hernandez, 11\u2014were also killed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Ferguson was found guilty on four counts of manslaughter in October.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This story was written using information from previous arrest warrants and previous FOX 35 reporting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/osceola-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Osceola County News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; A Florida father convicted of manslaughter after allowing his unlicensed teen son to drive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47,28,30,29,115,1976,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-159985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-fl","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-osceola-county","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}