| In SDNY Ortega Vasquez Is
Presented On Warrant Unsigned Then Emailed
From Boston
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 23 – Ricardo
Ortega-Vasquez was brought in
shackles with an unsigned
warrant into the U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York's
Magistrate Court on December
23.
When Magistrate
Judge Stewart D. Aaron asked
the prosecutors about the
missing signature, at first
they said there was a small
"s" on the page. Then they and
Judge Aaron got on the phone
to Massachusetts.
Ortega-Vasquez
was taken back into the
holding cell by the U.S.
Marshals.
Some time
later, he was brought up. His
Federal Defender Robert Baum
who had apologetically raised
the issue explained to him why
he had been taken in and out
of the holding cell.
Judge Aaron went back on the
record to say he had spoken
with Deputy Clark Martin
Castles at the Massachusetts
District Court, who had
e-mailed him paperwork from
Judge Timothy S. Hillman.
Back in
2017 Ortega-Vazquez got a
sentence of time served and
three years of supervised
release, pending being
transferred to ICE.
On
December 23 Ortega-Vasquez
waived an identity hearing,
and through Baum asked to be
transferred back to
Massachusetts as quickly as
possible. A control date of
January 6 was set up. The
case, in Massachusetts, is US
v. Ortega-Vasquez,
17-cr-40035 (Hillman).
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