A Miami state senator has proposed boosting the penalties in boating accidents with severe injuries to a third-degree felony punishable up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine, not a misdemeanor.
George Pino, the prominent Doral real estate broker who slammed his boat into a channel marker in Biscayne Bay, leading to the death of a Lourdes student in 2022, may face a jury in July.