Overview

• The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission charged Carlos Guillermo Alonso with two misdemeanors and Edmund Richard Hartley with four misdemeanors for violating U.S. Coast Guard navigational rules on look-out and collision avoidance.
• Investigators traced the striking vessel—a Boston Whaler docked behind Alonso’s Coral Gables home—using witness accounts of a light-blue center console craft.
• The hit-and-run collision on May 11, 2024, occurred when Ella Adler fell from a wakeboard tow in Biscayne Bay and was struck by a separate boat that then sped away.
• Alonso’s attorney said he had no knowledge of the collision and was “devastated” to learn he may have been involved.
• Adler was a freshman at Ransom Everglades School and a Miami City Ballet ballerina who had appeared in over 100 performances.