{"id":309146,"date":"2026-06-16T12:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/309146\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T12:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T12:45:09","slug":"vessel-homicide-trial-resumes-for-south-florida-real-estate-mogul-george-pino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/309146\/","title":{"rendered":"Vessel homicide trial resumes for South Florida real estate mogul George Pino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0June 16, 2026 at 8:29 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7GH5FFZTEFBRHJ5BZLHYVHG25Y.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 The trial continues Tuesday for South Florida real estate mogul George Pino who is accused of causing a boat crash in 2022 that killed a 17-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Monday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/15\/testimony-continues-in-vessel-homicide-trial-of-george-pino\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/15\/testimony-continues-in-vessel-homicide-trial-of-george-pino\/\">state rested its case<\/a> after calling its final witnesses, as the defense asked Miami-Dade County Judge Marisa Tinkler Mendez to throw out the case, saying the state failed to meet its burden of proof.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tinkler Mendez said she would rule on the motion Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pino, 55, is facing manslaughter and vessel homicide charges in the death of 17-year-old Lucy Fernandez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Prosecutors accuse Pino, then 52, of being reckless when he lost control of a 29-foot Robalo boat in the early evening hours of Sept. 4, 2022 and slammed it into a channel marker near Boca Chita Key, killing Fernandez. Two other girls were seriously hurt, including 17-year-old Katerina Puig, who was left permanently disabled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Pino\u2019s defense team counters that the crash was merely an accident and not the result of negligence.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 16, 2026 at 8:29 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand MIAMI \u2014 The trial continues Tuesday for South Florida real estate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-309146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309146","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=309146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}