| After ICE
Finds Man's Ex-Wife's Boyfriend Is Him,
Guilty Plea to Illegal Reentry in SDNY
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 19 – Israel Padilla Lopez
is from the Dominican Republic
and was arrested in 2004 in
North Carolina for cocaine
hydrochloride.
He was
deported in 2014, then
arrested in The Bronx in
November 2020. But there's
more to it.
It is, in its
way, a love
story.
On May 14, U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York Judge Jed S. Rakoff
held a change of plea
proceeding.
It was in-person,
and there was none of the
telephone access which has
been the case in the COVID-19
pandemic.
Inner City Press
ran to Judge Rakoff's
courtroom and caught the
tail-end of the change of
plea. He pleaded: his
sentencing will be on
September 9 at 11 am.
But the
complaint in the case
described the Department of
Homeland Security conducting a
"secondary border inspection
of Padilla Lopez' ex-wife at
JFK airport."
When questioned,
she said she lived with a
boyfriend on Sedgwick Avenue
in The Bronx.
But
Padilla Lopez' ex-wife's
boyfriend, it emerged, is or
was Padilla Lopez. He was
arrested and has been detained
since.
On May 14
in the courtroom there was one
U.S. Marshal with Padilla
Lopez, and no one but Inner
City Press in the gallery. The
defense attorney and the U.S.
Marshal hugged.
The case is USA
v. Padilla Lopez, 21-cr-286
(Rakoff)
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