| Courtroom
Closed Amid Trial of Man Charged With 5
Kilos of Cocaine From Colombia
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 27 – Three men
were charged with a conspiracy
to distribute five kilos of
cocaine, and import the drugs
from Colombia to Puerto Rico.
One was Vincente Estevez.
On
January 20, 2022 U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
John G. Koeltl held a status
conference. Inner City Press
covered it.
Judge
Koeltl set a hearing on
motions for May 20, and the
trial for July 25, to avoid a
time in August he will be out.
On July 27, Inner
City Press went to cover the
trial. At defense table was
Estevez and two defense
counsel.
Quickly there
were a sidebar, then it was
announced that the courtroom
would be closed, but audio
made available - ironically in
the same courtroom where the
partially sealed trial of Josh
Schulte was recently held. It
went like this:
Witness works for
DEA Caribbean. He's from
Colombia. He is undercover in
drug trafficking and money
laundering cases.
AUSA: Do you
surreptitiously record
conversations?
Agent Pedro
Gonzalez: Yes. I infiltrate.
In this case we 1st heard from
Cartagena, Colombia. We had 3
undercovers on the team.
AUSA: Gov
Exhibit 103. (Neither Inner
City Press nor any other
member of the media or public
can see)
Now with witness
off the stand, and jury gone,
still the lawyers' argument is
shifted to the "robing room"
and the courtroom locked
The case is US v.
Camejo et al., 20-cr-686
(Koeltl)
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