Man Detained for Selling
Fentanyl from Mexico in July 2023
Pled Guilty Now Gets 5 Years
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Feb 3 – A man who was indicted
for selling 400 grams and more
of fentanyl was detained on
consent on July 18,
2023.
On July 12,
2024 he appeared before U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrate Judge Gabriel W.
Gorenstein. Inner City Press
was there, the only media in
the SDNY Mag court.
He
was now changing his plea to
guilty, before a status
conference that had been
pushed back to July 30.
Co-defendant
Ramirez through counsel wrote
in on January 8, 2025 asking
for 24 months; it is scheduled
for January 27 at 2 pm.
On January 27, he
got the two years.
On February 3,
Zapata was sentenced to the
five year minimum; he
apologized and said he is
rehabilitated, working in MDC
food service.
Judge Torres
referenced the sale of nine
kilos of fentanyl from Mexico.
The case is
USA v. Lara, et al.,
1:23-cr-241 (Torres)
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