Millionaire in posh Florida suburb hired hit men several times to kill wife, including poison plot: police

Authorities are investigating a Miami millionaire's alleged plot to termination his estranged woman respective times implicit a play of years by hiring deed men and poisoning her with fentanyl, constabulary say. 

"I've been successful instrumentality enforcement for 27 years, and thing similar this … it seemed similar thing retired of a Hollywood movie, but this was unluckily existent life," Pinecrest Police Department Chief Jason Cohen told Fox News Digital. 

On June 23, Alessandra Pino, 26, called 911 and said idiosyncratic had conscionable pointed a gun astatine her arsenic her parent was pulling into the driveway of their house.

"Oh my gosh. My ma is here," she told the operator, according to the Miami Herald. "They mightiness person changeable her."

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Sergio and Tatiana Pino grin successful an undated photograph. Sergio allegedly hired deed men respective times to execution his wife. (Elaine Palladino Photography )

The equipped ambush was portion of a murder-for-hire plot orchestrated by Alessandra’s father, Miami developer Sergio Pino, against his estranged wife, Tatiana Pino, the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office said successful a property league past month. 

"[Tatiana] came location from her greeting errands, and arsenic she pulled successful the driveway, this idiosyncratic pulled up, got retired of the car with a firearm," Cohen said. "Her girl really came retired of the location and benignant of went look to look with this gunman who intelligibly wasn't determination for the girl due to the fact that he, from what I understand, helium had the quality to sprout her if helium wanted to, and helium didn't."

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Tatiana escaped the effort astatine her beingness by driving her car into the backyard and honking to get her daughter's attention. The antheral past allegedly pointed a weapon astatine the girl erstwhile she came retired but did not shoot, and nary 1 was yet harmed, according to charging documents. 

"The feline ended up fleeing due to the fact that our officers started responding, and helium was not capable to bash what we judge helium was determination to bash that day," Cohen explained. "We deliberation helium was determination to apt instrumentality her life, Tatiana's beingness astatine that point."

The gunman aboriginal charged with the June 23 onslaught was Vernon Green, 53.

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Sergio Pino, who national investigators accidental tried to termination his estranged wife, Tatiana Pino, respective times, was recovered dormant by termination successful his location successful July. (Online Obituary )

The June incidental was not the archetypal clip that Tatiana Pino had been a target. She had been subjected to repeated attempts of stalking and poisoning by respective suspects, allegedly hired by her husband, according to national authorities.

A twelvemonth earlier, idiosyncratic had rammed a rented Home Depot motortruck into her SUV successful the aforesaid driveway. 

"She came location from being out, and erstwhile she pulled into her driveway, determination was a Home Depot flatbed rental motortruck that was sitting connected the thoroughfare waiting for her. And arsenic she pulled in, it benignant of rammed her conveyance and took off," Cohen said. 

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Pinecrest constabulary responded, Cohen added, and that's erstwhile his section got progressive successful the investigation. 

"It was brought to our attraction that this incidental present was apt overmuch much than conscionable idiosyncratic crashing into her portion she's coming home," helium said. "We were made alert of a batch of the inheritance of what had been going connected with Mrs. Pino, the accusations of her being poisoned oregon drugged by perchance her soon-to-be ex-husband … it started to marque consciousness that this was conscionable different portion successful that large puzzle."

In July, conscionable weeks aft Alessandra's 911 call, Sergio was recovered dormant by termination successful his home, the FBI said astatine the time. The connection confirmed Sergio was being investigated successful an alleged murder-for-hire plot. The Miami existent property developer changeable himself successful the chamber of his waterfront Coral Gables mansion.

"It would look helium saw it was coming down. He apt thought helium was going to get charged with this," Cohen told Fox News Digital. "It definitely, successful my opinion, is precise telling of idiosyncratic with a blameworthy conscience, but conscionable my law enforcement sentiment of a 27-year veteran."

Sergio Pino was a Miami developer earlier taking his ain beingness amid a murder-for-hire investigation. (AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

Green is conscionable 1 of 9 men allegedly progressive successful plots conspired by Pino. Six of these individuals person been charged with murder-for-hire and the remainder for their alleged portion successful stalking and arsons directed astatine Tatiana and her family.

Bayron Bennett, 33, Fausto Villar, 42, Avery Bivins, 36, Clementa Johnson, 47, Diori Barnard, 47, Jerren Keith Howard, 38, Michael Jose Dulfo, 42, and Edner Etienne 27, person been charged and indicted for their "respective engagement successful a run to stalk, torment and effort to kill" Tatiana Pino, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced successful a statement. If convicted, they would look a maximum punishment of beingness successful prison.

The crippled to termination Tatiana Pino began arsenic aboriginal arsenic July 2022, U.S. Attorney Markenzy Lapointe said successful a property conference, adding that the deed men adjacent "obtained fentanyl to assistance Pino successful his effort to termination his wife."  

The Pinos had been joined for much than 30 years earlier Tatiana filed for divorcement successful April 2022 aft she suspected Sergio had poisoned her. 

"Mrs. Pino had to dice earlier their adjacent divorcement proceedings," Lapointe said.

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Though Sergio is nary longer alive, constabulary proceed to ticker implicit Tatiana's location "at slightest a fewer times a day" during the ongoing investigation, Cohen told Fox News Digital.

"We person what's called a ticker database … the officers volition spell by and conscionable benignant of bash an exterior hunt to marque definite thing looks retired of the ordinary," Cohen said. "That volition proceed for the foreseeable aboriginal conscionable due to the fact that there's inactive a batch of, you know, unfastened and moving parts."

Pino’s transgression defence lawyer criticized instrumentality enforcement successful a connection connected the time of his death.

"Sergio Pino took his ain beingness today," Sam Rabin said. "The level of instrumentality enforcement enactment astatine his residence was unprecedented and unnecessary, particularly since we had offered to surrender him, should that person go necessary. Today’s events people a precise tragic ending to an probe that we were assured we could successfully defend. There were galore rumors and allegations, but what was lacking was evidence."

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Up until his death, Pino denied immoderate engagement successful the incidents against his estranged wife.  

"We had a existent victim. We had this mediocre woman present successful our metropolis that was being targeted to beryllium murdered," Cohen told Fox News Digital. "By a small spot of luck and a small possibly higher power, they didn't win due to the fact that the accidental was surely there."