{"id":223063,"date":"2026-04-08T06:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/223063\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T06:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T06:54:11","slug":"miami-marine-stadium-swimmer-struck-in-biscayne-bay-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/223063\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Marine Stadium swimmer struck in Biscayne Bay crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MIA_Miami_Marine_Stadium_MJO_8.JPG\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" title=\"A view of the Miami Marine Stadium at Virginia Key on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, in Miami, Fla. A man allegedly hit a 21-year-old woman with a rented personal watercraft on April 4, 2026, while she was swimming in Biscayne Bay near Miami Marine Stadium.\" alt=\"A view of the Miami Marine Stadium at Virginia Key on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, in Miami, Fla. A man allegedly hit a 21-year-old woman with a rented personal watercraft on April 4, 2026, while she was swimming in Biscayne Bay near Miami Marine Stadium.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        A view of the Miami Marine Stadium at Virginia Key on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, in Miami, Fla. A man allegedly hit a 21-year-old woman with a rented personal watercraft on April 4, 2026, while she was swimming in Biscayne Bay near Miami Marine Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>                Photo by Matias J. Ocner<\/p>\n<p>            mocner@miamiherald.com<\/p>\n<p>A California man is accused of hitting a woman who was swimming in Biscayne Bay with a personal watercraft Saturday and leaving without calling for help, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old woman, who was not identified by authorities, was in the water around 7 p.m. near Miami Marine Stadium when she was hit and suffered a head injury, the FWC said.<\/p>\n<p>FWC officers obtained video footage and spoke with eyewitnesses to identify Andy Vences, 34, as the man driving the rented personal watercraft.<\/p>\n<p>Vences is a professional boxer with the nickname \u201cEl Tiburon,\u201d or the shark, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boxingonly.net\/profile\/andy-vences\">according to several online boxer profiles.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When officers got in contact with Vences over the phone, he allegedly admitted to getting into a boating crash. He agreed to meet with authorities at his hotel, the Dua Miami in Brickell, according to an arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>Vences was arrested and booked into the Miami-Dade Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. He is accused of leaving the scene of a vessel accident involving injury and had bonded out of custody as of Monday, jail records show.<\/p>\n<p>He is scheduled to be arraigned on June 3, according to Miami-Dade court records. He didn\u2019t have an attorney listed yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no excuse for leaving the scene of an accident,\u201d FWC Miami-Dade County Area Captain Rafael Almagro said in a statement. \u201cI am pleased our officers were able to quickly apprehend the subject so that he can be held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Members of the public can report boating violations by calling the FWC\u2019s Wildlife Alert Hotline at 888-404-FWCC or submitting a tip online at <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/myfwc.com\/contact\/wildlife-alert\">MyFWC.com\/WildlifeAlert<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published April 6, 2026 at 4:35 PM.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/313699071\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775631251_123_Headshots AGS 036 .jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Sofia Saric\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A view of the Miami Marine Stadium at Virginia Key on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, in Miami, Fla.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-223063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223063","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=223063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}