A Miami Seashore man arrested earlier this month after a crash left a girl lifeless and a number of other others injured is dealing with more charges.
Dionicio Enrique Castro, 30, was charged with DUI manslaughter, DUI with severe damage and driving and not using a license. On Feb. 8, Castro was heading eastbound on the 79th Avenue Causeway in a black Mazda SUV when he struck a median, landed on the westbound lanes and skidded about 20 ft earlier than ramming right into a grey Nissan sedan, Miami police say.
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Three girls within the sedan, ages 48, 39 and 19, had been taken to the Ryder Trauma Heart, the place the 39-year-old entrance passenger died hours later, police say. Castro was additionally hospitalized — and arrested hours — after the wreck.
Police say Castro’s automobile housed a loaded semi-automatic handgun, more than 20 grams of marijuana and a small scale used to weigh medicine. On the hospital, workers discovered a small baggie with cocaine in his pockets and one other with Ecstasy in his pockets, police mentioned.
Castro was accused of an armed theft that occurred the day earlier than the crash. He additionally had an energetic bench warrant in reference to a June 2022 theft.
The armed theft cost stems from an incident that Miami Seashore police say occurred on Feb. 7: It started when Castro went to 2 bars with a man, who later requested him for a experience house. Castro agreed, and the sufferer — and his pal — bought into the Mazda SUV.
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When Castro pulled as much as the realm of the 1200 block of Marseille Drive, the sufferer tried to get out of the SUV, and that’s when Castro demanded the sufferer’s pockets, police say.
Police say that Castro pulled out a firearm and hit the sufferer after he refused handy over his pockets. The sufferer, fearing for his life, then adopted Castro’s orders, giving him the pockets, which was stuffed with $1,200 in faux payments, cops say.
Whereas reviewing digital camera footage from the realm, police observed Castro’s Mazda and decided it to be the identical SUV concerned within the fatal crash on the next day. The theft sufferer additionally recognized Castro in a photograph lineup, police say.
As of Sunday, Castro is being held on the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Heart.
Omar Rodriguez Ortiz contributed to this report
