{"id":343471,"date":"2026-09-11T01:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T01:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343471\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T01:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T01:56:13","slug":"news-12-bronx-boat-operator-in-fatal-new-york-harbor-capsizing-pleads-not-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343471\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Boat Operator In Fatal New York Harbor Capsizing Pleads Not Guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/feds-charge-speedboat-operator-after-mother-and-infant-are-killed-in-new-york-harbor-capsizing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">boat pilot accused<\/a> in the deadly New York Harbor crash pleaded not guilty on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Manuel Hernandez faces charges stemming from the <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/arrest-made-after-boat-capsize-near-statue-of-liberty-kills-woman-infant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August boat capsizing incident<\/a> that killed a 5-month-old girl and 27-year-old mother.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The 46-year-old was previously released on bail but was later <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/speedboat-driver-in-fatal-new-york-harbor-capsizing-was-in-the-us-illegally-authorities-say\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrested by immigration authorities.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Hernandez is accused of entering the United States illegally and lying about his citizenship.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Prosecutors say the boat was overcrowded, <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/deadly-hudson-river-capsizing-renews-scrutiny-of-illegal-charter-boats\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">illegally chartered<\/a> and Hernandez was not licensed by the U.S. Coast Guard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The boat pilot accused in the deadly New York Harbor crash pleaded not guilty on Thursday. Manuel Hernandez&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-343471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343471","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=343471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}