{"id":300485,"date":"2026-06-08T21:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300485\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T21:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:34:08","slug":"miami-boat-crash-was-not-mere-accident-prosecutor-says-sun-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300485\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami boat crash was not \u2018mere accident,\u2019 prosecutor says \u2013 Sun Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sept. 4, 2022, George Pino was at the helm of a boat carrying his daughter\u2019s teenage friends for her birthday. The skies were clear, and the girls were cheerful.<\/p>\n<p>But the celebration ended, prosecutor Laura Adams said, when Pino struck a channel marker, plunging everyone into the water and killing 17-year-old Luciana \u201cLucy\u201d Fernandez. Pino had been driving his 29-foot Robalo boat through the Cutter Bank channel in Biscayne Bay back to the gated Ocean Reef Club in north Key Largo.<\/p>\n<p>Pino, 54, is on trial for manslaughter and vessel homicide charges in the crash, which killed Fernandez and left Katerina \u201cKaty\u201d Puig, now 21, with physical and neurological disabilities. Both sides of the large courtroom were packed, with Fernandez\u2019s loved ones sitting behind the prosecution table and Pino\u2019s supporters behind the defense.<\/p>\n<p>Opening statements took place on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>For more, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article316027453.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">miamiherald.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Sept. 4, 2022, George Pino was at the helm of a boat carrying his daughter\u2019s teenage friends&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[112,28,29,225,227,226,114,266,373,115,109],"class_list":["post-300485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-florida","tag-florida-news","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-miami-dade-county","tag-news","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300485","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=300485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}