Jurors are taken to see George Pino’s wrecked boat in North Miami lot

The six jurors in George Pino’s vessel-homicide and manslaughter trial took a road trip to North Miami on Thursday morning to view his boat, which was wrecked in the crash that killed a teenage girl and severely injured two others.

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The jurors arrived around 10:30 a.m. in a black Dodge van, escorted by three Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office deputies who drove them through a gate on Northeast 151st Street near Florida International University’s north campus.

The gate was guarded by two Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officers. Along with the jurors and deputies, the caravan included prosecutor Laura Adams and members of Pino’s defense team, led by attorney Howard Srebnick.

The group left the property around a half-hour later.

Pino is standing trial for the death of Luciana “Lucy” Fernandez, who was aboard Pino’s 29-foot Robalo center-console boat when he crashed it into a steel channel marker in the Cutter Bank channel in Biscayne Bay on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022. Lucy, who was 17, died at a hospital the next day.

The crash also seriously injured two other girls, including now 21-year-old Katerina “Katy” Puig. The Division I soccer prospect now faces a lifetime of neurological and physical challenges because of the severity of her injuries.

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George Pino, 55, and his wife, Cecilia, 51, took Katy, Lucy and 10 other teens out to Elliott Key from the Ocean Reef Club in north Key Largo for a day of celebration for their daughter’s 18th birthday. They were heading back to Ocean Reef for dinner around 6:37 p.m. when Pino, who was driving on the wrong side of the channel, slammed into the marker at just under 50 mph.

All the girls on the boat attended either Our Lady of Lourdes Academy, Westminster Christian Academy or Carrollton School of the Scared Heart.

The boat had a cooler full of alcohol on it when cops salvaged it from the water the next day, and some of the girls said they drank heavily on the day of the crash. Pino admitted to a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission investigator that he drank “two beers” that day.

Investigators, however, concluded he did not show signs of impairment and that alcohol was not a factor in the crash.

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This story will be updated.