United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jamie McDonald, Assistant Director in Charge of the Coast Guard Investigative Service (“CGIS”), Josh Packer, and Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”), Jessica S. Tisch, announced today that MANUEL HERNANDEZ has been charged with negligently causing the death of a five-month-old infant and a 27-year-old woman, after the vessel HERNANDEZ was piloting capsized in New York Harbor.
Source: U.S. Department of Justice