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Carlos Guillermo Alonso, 79, was charged April 28 with violating
two U.S. Coast Guard navigational rules, and Edmund Richard
Hartley, 31, was charged April 29 with violating four Coast
Guard rules, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Commission said in a press release.
Attorneys for Alonso and Hartley didn't immediately respond to
emails seeking comment. They have both pleaded not guilty.
In May 2024, 15-year-old Ella Adler and another girl were
wakeboarding behind a 42-foot (13-meter) Hanse Fjord walk-around
near Key Biscayne, just south of Miami, before falling off at
different spots, officials said. A dozen people had been on the
boat pulling Adler.
Before the vessel, operated by Hartley, could return to collect
her, Adler was hit by another boat, which immediately sped away,
officials said. Witnesses described the hit-and-run craft as a
center console boat with a light blue hull, multiple white
outboard engines and blue bottom paint.
Investigators eventually found the boat, a Boston whaler, docked
behind Alonso's Coral Gables home. His attorneys have previously
said he didn't realize he had stuck anyone with his boat and was
cooperating with authorities.
Adler was a freshman at Ransom Everglades School in Coconut
Grove and a ballerina with the Miami City Ballet.
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