A roofer who was working on Sergio Pino’s waterfront home when the Coral Gables developer recruited him to organize a hit job on his wife pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a murder-for-hire conspiracy and related charges.
Fausto Villar, 43, an ex-felon known by the nickname “Cuba,” also pleaded guilty to stalking Pino’s wife, Tatiana, and to brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. He’s now the fifth of nine defendants in the Miami federal case to opt out of going to trial next month in the hope of reducing his prison sentence in Pino’s plots to intimidate and ultimately attempt to kill his wife as the duo were engaged in a bitter divorce.
Tatiana Pino had sued her husband for divorce in 2022 and was still battling him in court over potentially tens of millions of dollars in joint personal and business assets when the 67-year-old developer fatally shot himself at his waterfront home in Coral Gables before FBI agents could arrest him last July…