A prominent Miami commercial real estate broker charged with vessel homicide in a 2022 boat crash that killed a teenage passenger has been ordered by a Miami-Dade judge to report to jail.
WSVN reported George Pino, president of State Street Realty, will need to turn himself in by Nov. 22. Pino was accused of driving his boat into a channel marker in Biscayne Bay during his daughter’s 18th birthday celebration over the Labor Day weekend two years ago. The boat capsized and all 14 people on board were ejected into the bay. One passenger, 17-year-old Luciana “Lucy” Fernandez, was killed in the crash while her classmate Katerina Puig suffered a traumatic brain injury and that left her permanently disabled.
Pino was initially charged with three careless boating misdemeanors, which created outrage among the families of the crash victims, but a felony homicide charge was brought against him on Thursday after one of the first responders on the crash scene, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue firefighter Matthew Smiley, reportedly told prosecutors that Pino showed signs of being intoxicated following the crash. Pino was not subjected to sobriety tests by investigators who arrived at the crash site, but on the day after the incident 61 empty bottles and cans of alcohol were found stashed in the boat.
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