Plea deal is coming for tugboat captain in crash that killed girls on sailboat

The operator of a tugboat pushing a barge that crashed into a summer-camp sailboat in Biscayne Bay last summer, killing three young girls, is negotiating a guilty plea with prosecutors to spare the victims’ families from a trial, his attorney told the Miami Herald on Tuesday.

“The case will be worked out. My client will not put the families through a trial and expose them to relive this terrible tragedy,” Walter Reynoso, the Coral Gables defense attorney for Yusiel Lopez Insua, said in an email.

WPLG-Local 10 reported that the deal is expected to be made in July…

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