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.
;
Drinking is so dumb. He should pay and the one person is gone for life
as well as the one who is disabled will never have a life that she should.
No matter what they do it will never restore the lives of the ones he ruined.
He was supposed to be the adult. He ruined people’s lives. Too sad for his victims
14 people, and 61 bottles and cans.
More than 4 containers of alcohol per person … and there were teenagers aboard.
What a senseless act and heartbreaking conclusion.
He gets off easy no matter what happens.
This Fool Caused So Much Heartache and Pain.
Some Never Learn.
Were those bottles and cans in the recycle bins waiting for who knows how long to be taken to the recycling center? Just because you have cans and bottles, doen’t even prove that he drinks at all. He may just provide drinks for his guests. Also, didn’t he have head trama after the accident? Why didn’t the one who thought he was intoxicated do a sobriety test? And he remembers after two years what happened that day? Is one fire fighter the only one you noticed this and remembers?
Not saying he might not have been, It would have been important for this during the first trial two years ago. Shame on those who didn’t bring the evidence before. So difficult to go backwards. Who decided to reopen the case after it was settled? Was it done in a legal way? I just hope the truth is found, whatever that may be. Accidents happen….it is sad for everyone.
Diane, you are right. Old empty bottles waiting to be recycled and a serious wreck where everyone could have been dazed. Either way though, it is sad that two families are forever changed by this. I know there is no price that can be paid to bring them back to where they were before, and jail does not sound like it makes sense (unless he really was drunk). A large civil penalty (millions) to help the families that lost a child and the other that has a life changing TBI, is probably what is needed to help bring closure.