A Miami boat captain is charged in the deaths of three girls who were aboard a sailboat he ran over and “crushed” while operating a large tugboat last summer, federal court filings say.
Yusiel Lopez Insua was the captain of a 25-foot tugboat that had been pushing a 108-foot-long construction barge during the deadly crash in Biscayne Bay on July 28, 2025, according to a criminal information charging Insua with seaman’s slaughter.
Insua, 46, collided into a children’s sailing camp’s vessel in the bay, after the sailboat “lost wind and stalled in the path of the tugboat and barge,” federal prosec...
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