{"id":325848,"date":"2026-08-20T14:50:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325848\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T14:50:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:50:43","slug":"ice-arrests-operator-of-boat-in-new-york-harbor-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325848\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE arrests operator of boat in New York Harbor crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

The man accused of operating an illegal charter boat that capsized in New York Harbor, killing a mother and her baby<\/a>, has been arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Department of Homeland Security said an investigation found Manuel Hernandez, who is from El Salvador, has been living in the U.S. illegally.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce he faces justice for his crimes, we will make sure that he is swiftly removed from our country,\u201d DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Hernandez, 46, was conducting a paid boat tour near Liberty Island on Aug. 8 when the vessel capsized, killing 27-year-old Sarah Sanchez and her 5-month-old daughter Antonella Garcia, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Federal prosecutors said 14 people were on board the boat at the time \u2014 four more than its 10-person maximum.<\/p>\n

The vessel had no infant life vests onboard, but Hernandez let the 5-month-old ride anyway, telling her parents one of them could wear their own life jacket and hold her, according to a federal complaint<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hernandez was also operating the boat without the required U.S. Coast Guard certification and without a valid Coast Guard inspection certificate, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n

He was charged with two counts of misconduct and neglect of a ship officer resulting in death earlier this month.<\/p>\n

NY1 has reached out to his attorney for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man accused of operating an illegal charter boat that capsized in New York Harbor, killing a mother…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[387,25,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,308,73913,27,200],"class_list":["post-325848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-sarah-ng","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}