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For Importing Meth to US From Turkey Farsi Speaker Pled US Wants 135 Months Cites SAMs

by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

SDNY COURTHOUSE, Oct 11 – Mohsen Shojaeinia was arrested in March 2023, for importing meth and heroin into the US from Turkey and the UK. He was extradited in and was appointed publicly-funded counsel, then hired his own lawyer.  

  On May 1, 2024 he was scheduled to plead guilty before U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Judge Paul G. Gardephe. Instead, the retained lawyer was relieved, and an appointment of counsel scheduled in the SDNY Magistrates Court. Inner City Press was there.

  SDNY Magistrate Judge Barbara C. Moses asked Shojaeinia if he had been detained one year already. Yes (vale), he said, and one year before that awaiting extradition. Unfortunately. Even in leg irons, he was surprisingly chipper.  

 New counsel was appointed for a May 22 rescheduled guilty plea.

Inner City Press went on May 22. Shojaeinia answered Judge Gardephe in English, but still had the Farsi interpreter. His plea deal is for 135 to 168 months. Sentencing is set for October 4 at 3 pm.

On September 23, his lawyer wrote in and asked for 60 months.

On September 30, the US Attorney's Office wrote in asking for 135 months - then on October 11 responded to Judge Gardephe's order by writing in, with redactions, that surface to air missiles, SAMs, were present during, or in connection with, defendant's drug trafficking, triggering a two point enhancement. Sentencing is set for October 17.

The case is US v. Shojaeinia, 22-cr-379 (Gardephe / Moses)

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