MIAMI – Actor Pablo Lyle was back in the custody of Miami-Dade County corrections on Thursday.
The Netflix “Yankee” star’s life changed in 5 minutes three years ago. He has been in legal limbo since a trip to Miami International Airport turned into a tragic fatal road rage incident.
Attorney Philip Reizenstein, who is representing Lyle, told the court this week the actor was facing financial difficulties and it would help if the judge allowed the bond to expire. Lyle wanted Mami-Dade Circuit Judge Diana Vizcaino to allow him to continue to wear the electronic ankle monitor without having to pay the bond.
Prosecutors filed a manslaughter case against him on April 1, 2019. A week later, he was released on a $50,000 bond with house arrest and an electronic monitor. He also surrendered his Mexican passport. The bond was set to expire on Friday, three years after it was issued.
On Thursday, the prosecution requested that he not get any special treatment because of his celebrity status. Vizcaino denied Lyle’s request. Lyle stood up, buttoned his jacket, and surrendered in court. Corrections officers rearrested Lyle and will be releasing him pending the payment of a new $50,000 bond.
Lyle, now 35, of Sinaloa, was 32 years old when he was accused of being responsible for a Cuban man’s death in Miami-Dade. It put an end to a successful acting career he had begun at 22 after working as a model.
On March 31, 2019, his brother-in-law, Lucas Del Fino, was driving to the airport when he took a wrong exit on the Dolphin Expressway. In his rush to correct his mistake, Del Fino upset another driver.
Juan Ricardo Hernández stepped out of his car to protest at the intersection of 14th Street and 27th Avenue. Video shows Del Fino got out of the car but didn’t place the car in park. He argued with Hernández.
“We were very close to each other. We were both yelling at each other,” Del Fino said during a hearing in 2020. “I was yelling at him, ‘Don’t touch my car! Don’t you bang on my car!’ I said that in Spanish.”
Del Fino ran back to stop the car after he noticed it was moving. Video shows Lyle, who was in the passenger seat, jumping out of the car, running towards Hernández, and punching him, prosecutors said.
Hernández collapsed on the street. Lyle paid a $5,000 bond for the battery felony and flew back to Mexico. He would later claim the decision to punch Hernández was in self-defense because his wife and two children were in the car.
Hernández suffered a head injury. Four days after Lyle punched him, and left him unconscious on the street, the family disconnected him from life support. He was 63.
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