Real Estate Mogul Facing Costly Divorce Allegedly Tried To Kill Wife Again And Again

Subscribe to HuffPost’s true crime newsletter, Suspicious Circumstances, to get captivating cases, unsolved mysteries and courtroom drama delivered straight to your inbox every week. Investigators said in court documents that they began investigating Sergio Pino in July 2022 for “multiple contracts” to kill his wife, Tatiana Pino, 55, dating back to 2019 and continuing through this June, an FBI agent said in an arrest warrant for one of his alleged co-conspirators. In court documents, investigators said that Bayron Bennett — whom Tatiana Pino recognized as an employee who served the couple food and drinks on their 71-foot yacht — told authorities in March that he had been asked by Sergio Pino to assemble a crew of men to commit arsons and violently ram into Tatiana Pino’s car while she was returning home from what her divorce attorney, Raymon Rafool, told NBC Miami was “a very important divorce court hearing.” After numerous hospitalizations for symptoms that included respiratory problems, she was admitted in 2022 to Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins Hospital, where doctors detected the potent opiate fentanyl in her system, she said in a sworn statement. In a 2021 financial statement, their combined net worth was listed as both $359 million and $153 million; Sergio Pino said in a November 2023 deposition that the larger number was “a joke.” Tatiana Pino discovered in 2017 that her husband was having an affair with another woman, a Miami real estate broker, according to divorce records. The group also committed two arson attacks at Tatiana Pino’s sister’s house — destroying several cars and some property, authorities said in court documents.