Its occupant, a boy who happened to be a close friend, was killed in the collision, which was deemed an accident; no charges were filed against her.
The ship's captain, Francesco Schettino, whom authorities arrested after the accident on charges that include manslaughter and abandoning ship, spoke to news media before being taken into custody.
The Union Carbide chairman at the time, Warren Anderson, visited India after the accident, was charged and then released on bail.
The officer, Sean E. Duffy, 38, of Staten Island, was arrested shortly after the accident and charged with driving while intoxicated, the police said.
Sandra Lee Jacobson, 40, was arrested soon after the accident and charged with two counts of vehicular homicide and vehicular assault as well as drunken driving.
After the accident, watchmen charged people a penny or two-pence to see the ruins of the beer vats, and visitors came in their hundreds to witness the macabre spectacle.
The Chinese captain and chief officer on watch during the April 3 accident were charged with damaging a protected marine environment after an investigation found that the freighter, Shen Neng 1, had strayed from its intended course.
Mr. Torricelli is accused of leaving the scene of the parking lot accident, a charge that his lawyer, William Deni, maintains would have been all but automatically reduced to "failure to report" for such a trivial mishap.
Mr. Fleury, 51, who has been on sick leave since the accident, is charged with involuntary manslaughter, as are the Westfield club and the two men who the authorities say supplied the Uzi: Domenico Spano of New Milford, Conn., and Carl Guiffre of Hartford.
Both are claims management companies, which advertise "no win, no fee" compensation claims for accidents and charge a referral fee for passing potential cases on to lawyers and insurance firms.
