Javier Burillo Azcarraga was arrested on charges that he caused the death of his 11-year-old son in San Francisco Bay after the boy and his brother, 27, where thrown from Azcarraga’s 33-foot Targa Protector (pictured above) and he tried to retrieve them. Azcarraga was driving the twin-outboard Protector near Angel Island at about 7 p.m. on Sunday when the accident occurred.
Police say they do not know why the boys were thrown off the boat, and that the boat hit them when Azcarraga tried to pull them out of the water. After he got the boys back on board, Azcarraga, from one of the wealthiest families in Mexico, took them back to the Corinthian Yacht Club in Tiburon. The younger boy was pronounced dead there, and the older one was taken to the hospital with leg injuries.
Azcarraga had left the yacht club by the time the police arrived. They found him at his home in Belvedere, and they gave him a blood test for alcohol. Tiburon police booked him on charges of vehicular manslaughter with a vessel, willful harm or injury to a child and operating a boat while under the influence. The next day he was released on $1 million bail.
Azcarraga’s grandfather founded the company that became Grupo Televisa, the world’s largest Spanish-language entertainment company. He married the daughter of the former president of Mexico, and he developed luxury resorts in Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo.
Divorce papers filed by Rose Burillo, the mother of the boy who died, said Azcarraga has a nontaxable income of $176,000 a month from family sources. Read more:
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