Millionaire Miami developer Sergio Pino's warped plan before he shot himself dead during FBI raid on his $7.9 million home after divorce from wife descended into chaos

A millionaire existent property mogul who changeable himself dormant arsenic cops raided his mansion paid 2 deed squads to termination his estranged wife, nan FBI has said.

Sergio Pino, 67, took his ain life wrong his $7.9million marina-side location in Coral Gables, Miami, connected Tuesday arsenic national agents closed in.

The FBI SWAT squad was location to apprehension him for paying assassins to kill Tatiana Pino, 55, during their bitter divorcement battle, but he wouldn't fto them return him alive.

Hitmen poisoned Tatiana with fentanyl, threatened their girl astatine gunpoint, tried her tally her ain connected nan roadworthy aliases pain down her sister's home.

Nine different group were arrested aft allegedly accepting contracts for arsenic overmuch arsenic $300,000 to murder Tatiana and make judge Pino couldn't beryllium blamed.

Markenzy Lapointe, US Attorney for nan Southern District of Florida, elaborate nan murder-for-hire crippled connected Wednesday aft Pino's suicide.

'This lawsuit is astir a husband, Mr Pino, who decided aft years of matrimony that he was going to termination his wife,' he said. 

Pino's efforts began aft Tatiana revenge for divorcement successful April 2022 aft 30 years of matrimony and 2 daughters, Alexander and Carolina Pino.

First he tried to slow and covertly poison her with fentanyl complete months, arsenic revealed during their divorcement proceedings later successful 2022.

'When that failed, he put retired a statement connected her caput connected 2 abstracted occasions, hiring abstracted groups of hitmen to do nan job,' Lapointe said.

He explained nan first execution unit Pino hired allegedly included Bayron Bennett, who was a part-time nutrient and portion server connected his yacht 'Century Star', and 3 others - Micahael Dulfo, Edner Etienne and Jerren Howard.

They were charged successful relationship pinch arson and hit-and-run attempts on Tatiana and her sister, which were revealed aft an earlier FBI ambush connected June 24.

The hitmen allegedly burned 3 cars extracurricular her sister's home, and tried to tally her down successful a rented Home Depot flatbed truck.

The hit-and-run effort connected August 30 past twelvemonth was a dismal failure, seen connected CCTV waiting near Tatiana's location past ramming into her car's rider broadside door.

Pino later hired a 2nd crew, allegedly including Diori Barnard, Clementa Johnson, Vernon Green, Avery Bivins, and Fausto Villar.

Pino met Villar, a convicted felon, erstwhile he did immoderate roofing activity for him.

He promised them $150,000 to transportation retired nan deed earlier nan adjacent divorcement hearing, and double if nan execution couldn't beryllium traced backmost to him, charging documents alleged.

Green allegedly tried to transportation nan deed out, but botched it when Tatiana fought backmost and he ended up sticking a weapon in Carolina's face.

He tried to ambush her arsenic she pulled into her driveway connected June 23, pointing a weapon astatine her car, tribunal documents alleged.

Tatiana accelerated her car into her backyard to escape, scraping a character and a fence, and honked her horn perpetually to pull attention.

Green allegedly chased her into nan backyard, but past returned to nan beforehand wherever Carolina had travel extracurricular to spot what each nan fuss was about.

He pointed his weapon 'inches from her face' grabbed, her, and ordered her to spell backmost inside, which she did, past fled successful a Dodge Ram pickup truck.

After rounding up nan alleged members of some crews and interrogating them, nan FBI moved to apprehension Pino astatine his mansion connected Tuesday morning.

Agents called to anyone wrong to surrender and stormed wrong aft nary 1 answered, uncovering Pino dormant successful an upstairs bedroom.

The FBI said he was unsocial pinch a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was pronounced dormant by nan aesculapian examiner.

Aerial footage of nan aftermath of nan ambush showed nan beforehand doors and windows smashed successful by nan SWAT team, a aesculapian examiner's van successful nan driveway, and a assemblage being wheeled connected a stretcher to nan backstage jetty astatine nan back.

Pino's lawyer Sam Rabin said nan number of cops astatine nan ambush was 'unprecedented and unnecessary' and maintained his client's innocence.

'Sadly, I nary longer person a surviving customer to let maine to respond to nan government's caller allegations,' he said.

'That is because prosecutors ignored my emails and telephone conversations wherever I volunteered to surrender Mr Pino if they wanted to apprehension him. 

'Although I person not seen immoderate of nan grounds that nan authorities claims to have, nan communicative that they are putting distant is contrary to nan personification and characteristic of Sergio Pino.'

Pino was nan the president of Century Homebuilders Group, billed arsenic nan largest Hispanic-owned homebuilder successful nan nation.

He was worth $153 million, according to divorcement documents, but location were arguments astir really overmuch money he really had.

One filing put their mixed wealthiness astatine $359 million, but Pino said he invented that fig arsenic 'a joke' utilizing 'made up' numbers, and nan $153 cardinal was accurate.

Tatiana said successful divorcement depositions that was hospitalized connected aggregate occasions and doctors recovered fentanyl successful her system.

During her deposition successful September 2022, Tatiana said that she was sick for 3 years and was 'in and retired of hospitals.' 

At nan time, Sergio's defense attorney, Sam Rabin, asked his client's wife: 'Do you judge that your hubby poisoned you?' 

'I judge that he did,' Tatiana replied.

She was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital successful 2022, arsenic doctor's struggled to diagnose her. 

Tatiana struggled to respire and had to intubated six times earlier doctors discovered that she had nan deadly narcotic successful her system. 

Once she was released, doctors told Sergio's woman not to return to her 'normal surroundings,' arsenic she stayed astatine her sister's location while she recovered. 

'They were frightened for maine because had this happened to maine again, I would person been dead,' Tatiana said, according to records. 

During her betterment Tatiana recalled that aft moving retired of nan location pinch her husband, her symptoms started to disappear. 

When asked by her husband's lawyer what motive Sergio mightiness person to poison her, Tatiana suggested that he was allegedly trying to termination her for financial gain. 

'Well, I conscionable don't deliberation that my housekeepers would person a motive. He would person a money motive maybe. A financial motive,' she antecedently said. 

Rabin continued to mobility Tatiana but she was advised by her attorney, Raymond Rafool, not to speak astir nan investigation conducted by nan national Drug Enforcement Agency. 

Deanna Shifrin, Sergio's family lawyer, said that though Tatiana has been seen by aggregate aesculapian professionals complete nan years, she admitted nether oath that nary of her illnesses were confirmed to beryllium caused by poisoning. 

'In different words, location is nary nonsubjective grounds that Mrs Pino was poisoned by anyone,' Shifrin told DailyMail.com.

'To beryllium clear, Mr. Pino is devastated by these attacks against him and his family and denies immoderate proposal that he is responsible for them.' 

The lawyer added that nan hubby 'has besides been nan unfortunate of threats and acts of vandalism during his divorcement proceedings.'

In divorcement tribunal filings, Tatiana has said that she is entitled to alimony arsenic she stopped moving and became a stay-at-home mom for her and Sergio's children. 

The filing added that nan family lives 'a lavish and luxurious lifestyle' that Tatiana is not capable to support up pinch surviving connected her own. 

Sergio said  his wife 'expressly waived their right' to alimony done their  original marital agreement, according to a counter-petition. 

Tatiana came backmost and said that she signed a post-nuptial statement 'under duress and coercion.' 

The filing revealed that nan brace first sewage joined connected April 9, 1992 successful a civilian ceremony, but connected nan time earlier their 'long-planned belief wedding ceremonial and party,' Sergio allegedly 'ambushed' her pinch nan agreement. 

'These factors caused Ms. Pino to consciousness for illustration she could not opportunity nary to signing nan Postnuptial Agreement without disappointing her Husband — who she trusted — and besides her family and friends who were looking guardant to nan pursuing day's celebration,' nan filing said. 

'For that reason, Tatiana argues that that nan marital statement is not enforceable.'  

Sergio runs Century Homebuilders Group - nan 'largest Hispanic-owned homebuilder successful nan nation,' according to nan company's website. 

He is mostly known for his high-profile businessman position pinch influential connections to some authorities and section politicians.

In 2022, Sergio's institution collaborated pinch different successful Miami-based real-estate developer, Treo Group, and bought 10.5 acres successful Florida City pinch plans to conception 131 townhomes, The Real Deal reported. 

Century Homebuilders paid $6.3million for nan project. The group precocious vanished a four-bedroom analyzable pinch 537 condos successful Doral.