Personal Injury Attorney Arrested For Allegedly Killing Pedestrian In Drunken Hit & Run Accident

He plans to enter a not-guilty plea to the criminal charges.

Marcos Gonzalez-Balboa

A Florida personal injury attorney allegedly caused severe personal injuries that resulted in a woman’s death during a drunken-driving hit-and-run accident.

Miami Lakes attorney Marcos Gonzalez-Balboa was arrested earlier this week and faces felony charges in the December 2017 death of Tatum Holloway, including DUI manslaughter, vehicular homicide, leaving the scene of a crash, and tampering with physical evidence. Gonzalez-Balboa is also the defendant in a recently filed civil complaint over Holloway’s death.

According to police, Gonzalez-Balboa spent about $350 on at least 20 drinks at a bar before stumbling out, entering his car, and leaving the property. Later that night, he allegedly lost control of his car and struck Holloway as she was walking back to a work event from a nearby restaurant. Miami-Dade police Detective Jeffrey Childers states in an affidavit that “[t]he impact of the crash was so great that the victim’s body was vaulted upward and into the windshield of the subject’s vehicle, [and] then hurled about 51 feet from the area of collision.”

Childers notes that prior to the accident, surveillance footage showed no damage on the personal injury attorney’s car, but his windshield was shattered the morning after the accident. Gonzalez-Balboa blamed a coconut, and had his windshield replaced shortly after the hit-and-run accident.

David W. Bianchi of Stewart Tilghman Fox Bianchi & Cain, who represents Holloway’s father in the civil suit, said that Gonzalez-Balboa has a “serious alcohol problem,” and that “[i]t finally went too far, and he killed somebody.”

“It’s even more outrageous because he is a lawyer and he fled,” Bianchi said. “Not only did he flee, but on the same day that he killed her, he went out and got somebody to put a new windshield in his car.”

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Gonzalez-Balboa plans to enter a not-guilty plea to the criminal charges, and is being held at a Miami-Dade County jail on $150,000 bond.

Personal Injury Attorney Arrested in Fatal Hit-and-Run and Sued by Family [Daily Business Review]


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