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Misdemeanor charges person filed against the antheral who was operating the vessel that fatally struck a 15-year-old miss disconnected a South Florida formation past year, arsenic good arsenic the antheral who was operating the vessel she had been wakeboarding behind
MIAMI -- Misdemeanor charges person filed against the antheral who was operating the vessel that fatally struck a 15-year-old girl disconnected a South Florida formation past year, arsenic good arsenic the antheral who was operating the vessel she had been wakeboarding behind, authorities announced Tuesday.
Carlos Guillermo Alonso, 79, was charged April 28 with violating 2 U.S. Coast Guard navigational rules, and Edmund Richard Hartley, 31, was charged April 29 with violating 4 Coast Guard rules, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said successful a property release.
Attorneys for Alonso and Hartley didn't instantly respond to emails seeking comment. They person some pleaded not guilty.
In May 2024, 15-year-old Ella Adler and different miss were wakeboarding down a 42-foot (13-meter) Hanse Fjord walk-around adjacent Key Biscayne, conscionable southbound of Miami, earlier falling disconnected astatine antithetic spots, officials said. A twelve radical had been connected the vessel pulling Adler.
Before the vessel, operated by Hartley, could instrumentality to cod her, Adler was deed by different boat, which instantly sped away, officials said. Witnesses described the hit-and-run trade arsenic a halfway console vessel with a airy bluish hull, aggregate achromatic outboard engines and bluish bottommost paint.
Investigators yet recovered the boat, a Boston whaler, docked down Alonso's Coral Gables home. His attorneys person antecedently said helium didn't recognize helium had stuck anyone with his vessel and was cooperating with authorities.
Adler was a freshman astatine Ransom Everglades School successful Coconut Grove and a ballerina with the Miami City Ballet.
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