| Arrested In Lexus With 800
Grams of Coke Rodriguez Pleads and Passes Car
Title to US
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 26 -- Victor Javier
Rodriguez was arrested April
3, 2019 in The Bronx with 800
grams of cocaine and 270 grams
of oxycodone in a car that
turns out to be a
Lexus.
On January 15,
2020 Victor Javier Rodriguez
and his lawyer Glenn A. Garber
appeared before Judge Edgardo
Ramos of the U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York and said
they were close to pleading
guilty.
(Inner City Press
reader may remember Garber
from his advocacy in a Bronx
gang case where his client
took the witness stand, with
some effect, and was
cross-examined about social
media posts by Assistant US
Attorney Danielle Sassoon with
US Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman
in the gallery, here.)
On January 15,
Judge Ramos said, "I take my
own pleas
generally." Glenn
Garber asked, "Would you
consider referring it to the
Mag[istrates] Court? I'm
concerned about the issue of
incarceration between plea and
sentence... I'm just trying to
avoid what I think is a very
onerous
statute."
Judge Ramos after Assistant US
Attorney Ryan Finkel took no
position agreed to have the
plea be before the duty
Magistrate, who on February 26
was Magistrate Judge Sarah L.
Cave.
There, with
only Inner City Press in the
gallery, Victor Javier
Rodriguez pled guilty to Count
1 of a superseding
Information. He was not
remanded, but was told to act
to "pass clear title to the
United States" of the Lexus
car: that it, to forfeit it.
There is still no sentencing
date. The case is US v.
Rodriguez, 19-cr-317 (Ramos /
Cave).
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