SDNY COURTHOUSE,
August 5 – While
many even most
cases in the
Magistrates
Court of the U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York are
sealed or have
case numbers
given only
later, on August
8, two
accused meth
conspirators were
processed
over a series
of hours with
a case
number listed
(19-mj7412)
that even
after these
hours showed
up as "Cannot
find case 19-mj-7412."
It was ironic
because the
delay, past 8
pm, was to try
to corroborate
the
information of
defendant
Luis Alberto
Breceda. In
his initial
interview with
Pre Trial
Services he
refused to
provide his
address.
Later
his Federal
Defender
lawyer blamed
himself, for
having an
inexperience
paralegal
handle the
interview. But
Breceda's
parents in
Arizona, he
said, would
only be
reachable
after 5 pm -
Arizona time.
Judge Moses,
with a high
stack of
indictments
some of them
sealed and
warrants said,
fine, come
back at 8 pm.
So Inner City
Press did.
Then,
Pre Trial had
reached
Arizona and it
all checked
out except for
the social
security
number. She
said she would
be willing to
hear argument
on whether the
condition that
the co
defendants,
childhood
friends who
live right
across the
street from
each other in
Arizona, can
now not speak
to each other
without the
presence of
counsel. But
when Breceda
said, What
about sports?
she drew the
line. No
sports while
on home
confinement.
We'll have
more on
this.
Luis Alberto
Breceda
Back
on August 5 a sex offender
was processed and remanded
by the name of Townsend, not
listed on the day's New
Presentment. Townsend
went missing from the
homeless shelter on
Creston Avenue in the
Bronx he was assigned
to. His Federal
Defender said the
shelter moved him. But
it seems he
disappeared from the
second location too.
He was in on
Violation(s) of
Supervised Release
including cocaine and
PCP. He was
remanded, with a
next day before
Judge Alvin
Hellerstein on
September 4 and not
before, the fill-in
AUSA said, due
to medical issues. Judge
Moses admonished the US
Attorney's Office for leaving
Townsend
in the MCC over
the weekend, and
asked for a
written
submission of
reasons. But will
that be
public? Under
what case
number? On the
PACER terminal
in the SDNY
Press Room
Inner City
Press has
worked perched
over since
April, none of
the defendants
named Townsend
have Judge
Hellerstein as
their judge.
Unregistered
sex offender,
indeed. We'll
have more on
this.
at least one
case had no
number at all.
A defendant
named Edwin
Gonzalez
was presented
as just in
from Rikers Island, remanded
on the
consent of his
CJA lawyer and
in need of methodone.
Later on
August 1, also
remanded but
with a case
number because
indicted and
extradited
from Estonia
which got
consular
notice was
Nikolai
Niftalijev,
charged with
narcotics
inportation
conspiracy.
He's set to
resurface on
August 6
before SDNY
Judge Oetken.
Inner City
Press aims to
be there.
Remands were
to the
Metropolitan
Correctional
Center - where
as Inner City
Press has exclusivelyexclusively
reported
fellow
non-reporting
sex offender
Jeffrey
Epstein is
hogging the
legal meeting
room with paid
lawyers
working in
shifts so he
can be out of
his cell,
using the
Internet.
Inner
City Press
will continue
to try to find
the missing
cases on the
Press Room
PACER terminal
it has worked
perched over
for months.
Watch this
site.
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