| In SDNY Man With Two Names
Has Two Cases One Sealed One Before Judge
Engelmayer
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 26 – On December 8, 2016
Judge Paul A. Engelmayer
imposed a 21-month sentence on
Hector Melendez Lopez for
conspiracy to distribute
heroin, and a condition that
"the defendant shall oben the
immigration laws and comply
with the directives of the
immigration authorities."
On
December 26, 2019 in the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrates Court, this
defendant was presented again
- but with a different name,
Ramon Antonio Mendez Urena,
and a case number that even an
hour later remained sealed:
19-mj-11950.
Magistrate Judge Barbara Moses
said, I have only one name,
Judge Moses. Should I call you
Mr. Mendez or Mr. Urena?
Mendez, was the answer. The
charge, for some reason still
sealed, is unlawful re-entry
in violation of 8 USC Section
1326a and b2, just like a
defendant just before him,
called Juan Brito, without
even a docket number.
Judge
Moses, to decide whether to
give Mendez a free Federal
Defender or not, asked if his
construction job in November
had been off the books. The
Federal Defender, not yet
appointed, said "I'm not sure
he should answer that." And he
didn't.
Mendez will next appear before
Judge Engelmayer on January 8
at 11 am, for an alleged
violation of supervised
release, to whit, sale of a
controlled substance in The
Bronx in violation of NY Penal
Law 20.431. The other case
remains sealed. This one,
misnamed, is US v. Melendez
Lopez, 16-cr-94 (Engelmayer).
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