Fish and wildlife officers arrested a boater on a vessel homicide charge in the death of a Hialeah spearfisherman who was killed in July after being hit by a boat while snorkeling off the Florida Keys.
Investigators say that 72-year-old Palmer Reid Long drove his 32-foot Contender center console through an area with a visible diver down flag at nearly 50 mph — which is very fast on the water — and ran over 56-year-old Israel “Kiko” Boza.
Boza was snorkeling and spearfishing with his friends off his 23-foot Key Largo open fishing boat in about 20 feet of water roughly 6 miles west of Sombrero Key Light off the Middle Keys in the early afternoon of July 5 when he was hit, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the state police agency that investigates fatalities on the water…