| Man
With Prostate Cancer Was Driving 600 Grams
of Drugs Now GPS & Home Detention
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTROOM,
March 1 – In the U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York on March
1, a detention or release
proceeding was held by
Magistrate Judge Katharine D.
Parker on a defendant arrested
with more than 600 grams of
fentanyl and cocaine in his
car trucks, allegedly driving
it from New York to
Connecticut to sell the drugs.
But the man has
prostate and bone cancer.
Inner City
Press covers the Magistrates
Court, sometimes alone in the
gallery, as it was on March
1. Defendant Rafael
Ventura was brought in by
three Marshals. His Federal
Defender said that some of the
prior arrests were of a
different Rafael Ventura, with
the same FBI number.
Judge
Parker considered all this and
agreed with the Federal
Defender that this Ventura
could be released the same
night, on a $50,000 bond to be
signed by three within two
weeks. He will stay over night
in The Bronx and return to
SDNY on March 2 by 10 am for
the fitting an a GPS "ankle
bracelet." Then he is to be
under home detention in
Connecticut, with a
preliminary hearing
tentatively set for March 31.
The case is US v.
Ventura, 22-mj-22020 (Parker)
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