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65000 Fentanyl Pills Man Pleads Guilty
Through Safety Valve For 87 to 108 Months
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY MAG COURT
EXCLUSIVE, August 22 -
In the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York on August 22, a defendant
who had been scheduled to
plead guilty to fentanyl
distribution before District
Judge Paul G. Gardephe instead
pled before Magistrate Judge
Katharine H. Parker. Inner
City Press was there, the only
media in the Mag Court.
Defendant
Ariel Castro Arrendondo, now
in prison yellow, is or was
based in Arizona. In October
2021 he arranged to sell the
fentanyl to a Confidential
Source. The Complaint has a
black and white photo of
60,000 pills in Ziploc bags.
Judge
Parker asked the requisite
questions through the
interpreter, and recounted
that while there was a 10 year
mandatory minimum otherwise
applicable, the Government
found this defendant eligible
for the safety valve and so a
guideline of 87 to 107 months.
Judge
Gardephe, who was presiding in
a bench trial involving
Citibank and a Colombian sugar
producer that Inner City Press
is also covering, here, has
not yet set a sentencing date.
So a control date of November
22 was set.
The case is US v.
Castro Arrendondo, 21-cr-741
(Gardephe / Parker)
Then the
Assistant US Attorney said
that since the defense would
not consent to sealing the
transcript - as happened
recently before Magistrate
Judge James L. Cott, despite
and after Inner City Press'
opposition - they would not
ask for it to be sealed. So it
is not.
Inner City
Press, the only media in the
SDNY Magistrates Court, will
have more on this exclusive.
The case is US v.
Najera Barrios, 22-mj-6422
(Lehrburger)
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