{"id":1096,"date":"2026-05-26T21:34:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southfloridamovingguides.com\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2026-05-26T21:34:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:34:21","slug":"boat-captain-takes-plea-deal-avoids-jail-in-case-of-girl-15-killed-near-key-biscayne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southfloridamovingguides.com\/?p=1096","title":{"rendered":"Boat captain takes plea deal, avoids jail in case of girl, 15, killed near Key Biscayne"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>MIAMI \u2014 Edmund Hartley stood beside his lawyer as a judge learned the 33-year-old would plead guilty Tuesday to two misdemeanors for his role in the 2024 boat crash that killed teenager Ella Adler. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/southfloridamovingguides.com\/?p=1094\">South Carolina Senate rejects Trump\u2019s call to redraw congressional map for midterm elections<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It happened on May 11, 2024 near Key Biscayne.<\/p>\n<p>Hartley, then 30, was the captain hired to take Adler, 15, of Miami Beach, and her friends out on a yacht. Adler and another teen were wakeboarding as Hartley towed them along a busy waterway near Key Biscayne. At one point, Adler fell off her wakeboard. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the state\u2019s contention that by the defendant\u2019s decision to continue pulling Ella\u2019s friend even after Ella had fallen, he put Ella in mortal danger,\u201d prosecutor Laura Adams said. \u201cAs the defendant begins to circle heading northbound to where Ella is, that is where Mr. Alonso comes barreling through on his own vessel. <\/p>\n<p>Carlos \u201cBill\u201d Alonso, ran Adler over and killed her while operating another boat. The Coral Gables man, then 78, said he did not even realize he hit anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Adler\u2019s father spoke at the hearing Tuesday, telling the judge about how his daughter was a talented dancer and an excellent student at Ransom Everglades High School in Coconut Grove.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElla didn\u2019t just live. She danced through life,\u201d Matthew Adler, Ella\u2019s father said. \u201cAnd now she\u2019s gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also spoke to Hartley directly. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving two inexperienced teenagers wakeboarding an active channel filled with large boats and limited visibility was dangerous,\u201d Matthew Adler said. Ella paid for those failures with her life.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/southfloridamovingguides.com\/?p=1092\">Another surge for Micron, Wall Street\u2019s latest $1 trillion company, sends US stocks to records<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In exchange for Hartley\u2019s guilty pleas to failure to have due regard for dangers and failure to use all available means to determine if the risk of collision exists, the state agreed to drop two other misdemeanors. <\/p>\n<p>Hartley will spend the next year on probation and must complete a boater safety course, a sentence the state says they reviewed with the Adler family. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have reviewed this with the Adler family and although probably we would all like to see more significant punishment for these types of offenses, the legislature has deemed it fit to make them second-degree misdemeanors so our hands are tied to a certain degree as to what we can seek in these cases,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n<p>Hartley must also make a $5,000 donation to the victim\u2019s compensation fund and an additional $2,500 donation in Ella Adler\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p>Alonso, now 79, pleaded guilty to misdemeanors in January and was sentenced to six months of probation and a boater safety course.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/southfloridamovingguides.com\/?p=1090\">Trump administration proposes NDAs for federal employees to stop leaks<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Latest headlines from:<\/div>\n<div>\nMiami-Dade<br \/>\nBroward<br \/>\nFlorida Keys<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary><span>Cities<\/span><span>\u25be<\/span><\/summary>\n<div>\n<div>\nMiami<br \/>\nFort Lauderdale<br \/>\nCoral Springs<br \/>\nDavie<br \/>\nDeerfield Beach<br \/>\nDoral<br \/>\nHialeah<br \/>\nHollywood<br \/>\nHomestead<br \/>\nLauderhill<br \/>\nMiami Beach<br \/>\nMiami Gardens<br \/>\nMiramar<br \/>\nPembroke Pines<br \/>\nPlantation<br \/>\nPompano Beach<br \/>\nSunrise<br \/>\nTamarac\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edmund Hartley stood beside his lawyer as a judge learned the 33-year-old would plead guilty Tuesday to two misdemeanors for his role in the 2024 boat crash that killed teenager Ella Adler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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