Florida attorney general announces state murder charge against Raúl Castro

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced on Monday morning that there was a new state arrest warrant in effect for Raúl Castro. Leer en españolDuring a news conference at the FIU College of Law, Uthmeier announced state charges against Raúl Castro for conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. “It was not an accident what happened, it was murder,” Uthmeier said about the deaths of Carlos Costa, Armando Alejandre Jr., Mario de la Peña, and Pablo Morales on Feb. 24, 1996, as they flew in two Cessna 337 aircraft. De la Peña, 24; Costa, 29; Morales, 29, and Alejandre, 45, were in flights with Brothers to the Rescue, a Miami-based Cuban-American nonprofit founded in 1991 to help save the lives of refugees at sea. “They were in unarmed civilian aircraft going out to save people,” Uthmeier said. At the news conference, U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones for the Southern District of Florida, who announced the federal case against Castro on May 20 in downtown Miami, said he was stan