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Murder of Arias in 2011 Castillo Pleads
Guilty 10 Days Before Trial in SDNY
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 5 – Michael Castillo is
accused of murder for hire, of
Hector Arias in 712 East Gun
Hill Road on March 10,
2011.
The complaint
says Castillo and Arias were
rivals selling marijuana
around 193rd Street and
Broadway. The government
argues that his conviction for
marijuana possession is
admissible as 404(b)
evidence.
On July 5,
2021, Inner City Press
reported
that
a trial
approaches on
July 19 before
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of
New York Judge
John G.
Koeltl. Inner
City Press is
following the
case.
Now on July 9,
ten days before trial, MICHAEL
CASTILLO, a/k/a “Squirrel,”
pled guilty today in Manhattan
federal court in connection
with the March 10, 2011,
murder of Hector Arias in the
Bronx, New York. U.S.
District Judge John G. Koeltl
accepted the defendant’s
guilty plea.
CASTILLO is scheduled to be
sentenced before Judge Koeltl
on October 15, 2021, at 10:00
am.
The case
is US v. Torres, 19-cr-428
(Koeltl)
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