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With Cotto on Trial For Drugs FBI Special Agent Describes Controlled Buys in East Harlem

By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE, July 15 – Ervin Ortiz was arrested as part of a multi-defendant narcotics conspiracy.   

On May 20, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Jed S. Rakoff held his sentencing. Inner City Press covered it, below.

  Now with co-defendant Eddie Cotto on trial, on July 15 an FBI Special Agent identified him and described controlled buys on Lexington and 110th Street, how he would park his car on 109th Street to observe.

Back on June 30 the US Attorney's Office filed its motions in limine, arguing that evidence of Cotto's previous drug offenses should come in, but his conditions of pre-trial detention should not. We'll see - the trial , according to the May 14 docket entry, is set for July 12.

On May 20 Judge Rakoff said that while Ortiz had not met his responsibilities, neither had society met its responsibilities to Ortiz.

He said Ortiz' crimes were not violent, and all sprang from addiction that was never treated. He said if he had his druthers, some of these drugs would be legalized.  

The sentence was 66 months.  It is a sentencing the transcript of which is worth reading. 

The case is US v. Cotto, et al., 18-cr-413 (Rakoff)

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