{"id":307237,"date":"2026-06-14T17:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T17:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/307237\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T17:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T17:21:10","slug":"inside-the-first-week-of-broker-george-pinos-boat-crash-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/307237\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the First Week of Broker George Pino\u2019s Boat Crash Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first week of commercial broker George Pino\u2019s criminal trial wrapped up last week.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pino is facing manslaughter and vessel homicide charges in the 2022 boat crash that killed 17-year-old Lucia \u201cLucy\u201d Fernandez and injured ten others. The crash also caused debilitating injuries to now 21-year-old Katerina \u201cKaty\u201d Puig.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pino, CEO of Doral-based State Street Realty, was driving his 29-foot-boat when it collided into a channel marker in the Florida Keys on Labor Day Weekend. He, his wife, daughter and her friends were on the boat. Prosecutors initially charged him with careless boating, which is a misdemeanor, but bumped the charges up to felonies after a witness came forward in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To say the first week of his trial was emotionally charged would be an understatement. On the first day, Miami-Dade Judge Marisa Tinkler Mendez sent jurors home early after Pino had an emotional breakdown. She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/community\/miami-dade\/article316097082.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">warned<\/a> Pino\u2019s defense attorneys, led by Howard Srebnick, about hugging and interacting with friends and family while the jury was present.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the second day, Lucy Fernandez\u2019s father, Andy, testified about seeing his daughter in the hospital that evening, recognizable only by a birthmark and her necklace. He called it a parent\u2019s \u201cworst nightmare.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last week, prosecutors showed the jury the wrecked boat, as well as body camera footage from Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Lt. William Thompson. Thompson first asked Pino if the boat involved in the crash was his, but instead of answering, Pino told him that another boat threw a wave that caused him to lose control and crash into the marker.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Srebnick has argued the other boat narrative is the result of a false memory Pino formed after the accident. Srebnick said the crash was an accident, and that it does not meet the legal definition for recklessness.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors disagree.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was not a momentary lapse of judgement,\u201d Miami-Dade Assistant State Attorney Laura Adams told the jury in her opening remarks. \u201cLucy is dead because the defendant failed to do the basic things to do on the water \u2026 avoiding situations that can cause collisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The trial is expected to resume on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What we\u2019re thinking about: A handful of pocket listings \u2014 from $100 million to $400 million \u2014 are quietly being shopped in Miami. <a href=\"https:\/\/therealdeal.com\/miami\/2026\/06\/09\/400-million-luxe-home-listing-tops-off-market-deals-in-miami\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Did I miss any<\/a>, and are these prices realistic? Send me a note at <a href=\"https:\/\/therealdeal.com\/miami\/2026\/06\/14\/inside-the-first-week-of-broker-george-pinos-boat-crash-trial\/mailto:kk@therealdeal.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">kk@therealdeal.com<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CLOSING TIME<\/p>\n<p>Residential: Financier Todd Green sold his condo at the Four Seasons at the Surf Club, at 9111 Collins Avenue in Surfside, to a trust for<a href=\"https:\/\/therealdeal.com\/miami\/2026\/06\/05\/wealth-fuels-south-florida-waterfront-home-boom\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> $27.3 million<\/a>. Green <a href=\"https:\/\/therealdeal.com\/miami\/2017\/06\/05\/ny-money-manager-pays-12-4m-for-four-seasons-at-the-surf-club-unit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">paid $12.4 million<\/a> for the four-bedroom, four-bathroom unit in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Commercial: In Riviera Beach, the properties at 1701 and 2001 Australian Avenue, in an industrial complex, sold for $34 million. Realterm Logistics Income Properties LP, based in Annapolis, Maryland, sold the properties to the Silverman Group, based in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Research by Mary Diduch\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NEW TO THE MARKET\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Richard Burns\u2019 RCR Homes listed his newly built estate at 16745 Stratford Court in Southwest Ranches for $38.8 million, making it the priciest listing in Southwest Ranches, according to a press release from the lender, Vaster. The nearly 24,000-square-foot mansion has 10 bedrooms, 17 bathrooms, a 20-car garage and pool. It\u2019s on the market with Douglas Elliman\u2019s Marc Brandt. RCR paid $2.5 million for the 2.4-acre property in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Stratford-Court-in-Southwest-Ranches.jpg\" alt=\"16745 Stratford Court in Southwest Ranches\" class=\"wp-image-1036414\"  \/>16745 Stratford Court in Southwest Ranches<\/p>\n<p>A thing we\u2019ve learned<\/p>\n<p>A dozen of the 50 most at-risk housing markets are in Florida, according to an Attom reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtor.com\/news\/trends\/florida-housing-market-price-falling-attom-q1-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">by Realtor.com.<\/a> The riskiest in Florida is Charlotte County, which includes Punta Gorda. Attom looked at affordability, percentage of seriously underwater mortgages, foreclosures and unemployment rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first week of commercial broker George Pino\u2019s criminal trial wrapped up last week.\u00a0\u00a0 Pino is facing manslaughter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[22874,225,227,226],"class_list":["post-307237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-commercial","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307237","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=307237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}