| Yonkers Parks Staffer
Charged With Kidnapping Same Sex Paid
Companion Has New Lawyer
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 13 -- A four-year
employee of the Yonkers Parks
Department was detained in
February on charges of armed
kidnapping - and Inner City
Press learned more
than was included in the
indictment and press release
by the Southern District of
New York U.S. Attorney's
Office.
Now
Drain's case was been assigned
to SDNY District Judge Victor
Marrero, who held a status
conference on March 13. Drain
is no longer represented by
the Federal Defenders but
rather by Patrick Joyce who
has yet to sign a protective
order for discovery. Assistant
US Attorney Michael Longyear
described cell phone
extractions and said
production of discovery should
be substantially completed in
four weeks.
Judge
Marrero set the next
conference for June 5. Drain's
lawyer Joyce said he is
preparing a bail package and
asked Judge Marrero if it
should be brought to him or to
the SDNY Magistrates Court.
The latter, it seems. Inner
City Press will be on the look
out: watch this site.
On
February 20 Inner City Press
reported that Owen Drain's
alleged victim was a male,
long-time commercial sex
partner who escaped running
from Drain's black Cadillac
Escalade after having his
iPhone and iCloud wiped of
images of their sexual
relationship, Assistant US
Attorney Ni Qian said in a
bail proceeding only covered
by Inner City Press.
SDNY Magistrate Judge
Barbara C. Moses asked AUSA
Qian if the Yonkers cell phone
store employee who came out to
the Cadillac where the victim
was held and took his
passwords was not, in fact, an
accomplice. Qian said that is
being investigated.
Federal Defender Jonathan
Marviny argued that Drain in
his 35 years of live has had
no convictions, and is now
living with his wife and his
father in Tuckahoe, New York.
(The street address was said
in open court but Inner City
Press is voluntarily not
publishing it in this format.)
More on Patreon
here.
The case is
US v. Drain, 20-cr-145 (Marrero).
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