| Roldan Pled
To 6 Kilos of Bronx Meth But Was Denied 5K
Letter So Gets 54 Months in Prison
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 22 – Jose Roldan was
charged with conspiracy to
transport six kilograms of
meth from El Paso, Texas to
The Bronx. He pleaded
guilty.
On December 13, U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Mary Kay Vyskocil held his
sentencing, after ordering him
transported from Texas to New
York to appear
in-person. Inner City
Press went and covered
it.
Judge Vyskocil
asked the requisite questions
to accept the plea, and then
turned to mandatory remand. In
the back of the courtroom with
Inner City Press were three
U.S. Marshals, at the ready.
Roldan's white
show CJA counsel tried to
argue for extraordinary
circumstances and no remand.
But there is a
ten year mandatory minimum,
absent the safety valve and,
Judge Vyskocil ruled, no
extraordinary circumstances.
He was remanded, to be
sentenced on April 20.
In advance
of sentencing the US
Attorney's Office submitted a
heavily redacted letter. On
April 20 they confirmed they
would NOT give Roldan a 5K1.1
letter, since the case he
cooperated on wasn't in the
SDNY. Judge Vyskocil called
this concerning. More than a
full day after the proceeding,
the sentence was put in the
docket: "as to Jose Roldan
(1). THE DEFENDANT: pleaded
guilty to Count One of an
Information. All open counts
are dismissed on the motion of
the United States.
IMPRISONMENT: 54 months. The
court makes the following
recommendations to the Bureau
of Prisons: The Court
recommends defendant be housed
in a facility in or close to
El Paso, Texas. The defendant
is remanded to the custody of
the United States Marshal.
SUPERVISED RELEASE: 5 years."
We
will have more on this.
The case is US v.
Roldan, 21-cr-645 (Vyskocil)
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