| Ruben Soto Was Caught By A
Drug Dog in KC Then Cooperated and Was Bailed
in SDNY
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
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Source
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 19 – Ruben Soto was riding
a bus toward New York City on
December 17 when at a bus stop
in Kansas City law enforcement
officers asked to search his
backpack.
He declined, but
agreed that their Labrador
Retriever Bennett could sniff
it. This led to the discovery
of five kilograms of heroin.
Soto
agreed to cooperate and go
through with delivering the
drugs in New York. On December
18 he contacted and
essentially set up Tafari
Gordon, meeting him at 4:50 am
on December 19 on 9th Avenue
and 42nd Street in Manhattan
with sham narcotics.
Arrests ensued - and then past
6 pm on December 19 Soto was
presented in the U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York before
Magistrate Judge Kevin N. Fox.
Even those Soto cooperated,
the government wanted to
impose GPS location
monitoring. Judge Fox did not
go along - but unlike the
Assistant US Attorney's offer
to Soto, he required that at
least one co-signed sign his
$50,000 bond. So Soto was
remanded to spend the night in
jail. The case is US v.
Gordon and Soto,
19-mg-11886 (Fox).
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