JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WFLA) — A New York man was extradited to Florida this month after he was accused of inflicting a lethal crash when he got here to a near-stop on Interstate 95 to take photograph of the “Welcome to Florida” signal.
The Florida Freeway Patrol booked Marvin Redondo Funes into the Nassau County Jail, the place he’s being held on expenses of “culpable negligence involving the demise of 4 juveniles and quite a few different prison and civil expenses,” according to the agency.
An arrest report obtained by NBC affiliate WTLV detailed what led as much as the crash on July 1, 2023.
Troopers mentioned Funes “slowed his car to one-to-two miles per hour” within the heart lane of I-95 on the bridge between Georgia and Florida. The car behind his was touring “between 65 and 78 miles per hour,” based on the report, and couldn’t cease in time.
The 4 kids sitting behind Funes’ car, “that was solely designed to carry three folks,” had been killed within the collision. Just one little one was sporting a seatbelt, the report acknowledged.
Two 14-year-olds, a 12-year-old and a 10-year-old died within the crash. A member of the family advised WTLV they had been driving to Miami to spend the 4th of July vacation with household.
Funes will make his first look in a Florida courtroom on December 6.
