Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Fee arrested a 48-year-old Miami Seashore man for his involvement in a ship crash in a Key West canal that claimed a lady’s life final November.
On June 20, FWC investigators arrested Reinaldo Aquit on a warrant for 9 fees, together with a felony cost of vessel murder and eight misdemeanors. The fees stem from the November 2024 crash, which resulted within the dying of 28-year-old Stephanie Rodriguez of Hialeah.
On Nov. 7, 2024, FWC mentioned, Aquit was working a 39-foot velocity boat with seven passengers on board. The boat was touring from Miami to Key West as a part of a poker run occasion.
In accordance with FWC, Aquit was driving carelessly, touring at excessive velocity and disregarding navigational guidelines.
Whereas inside Calda Channel, a slim channel north of Key West, Aquit took a pointy flip, inflicting his vessel to roll. Six passengers had been thrown from the vessel, together with Rodriguez who died because of the accidents she sustained within the incident.
“The tragic dying of this younger girl was utterly avoidable,” mentioned Main Alberto Maza, South Bravo regional commander. “We proceed to think about Ms. Rodriguez’s family and friends as they grieve her loss.”
Along with the felony vessel murder cost, Aquit is dealing with three misdemeanors for violating navigational guidelines inflicting critical bodily harm or dying and 5 misdemeanors for reckless operation of a vessel. His bond was set at $500,000.