| Man Detained for Gun in Car
in East Bronx Gets 2d Lawyer and
Now Released on Bond
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Aug 29 – Trevis Raphael, who
pled guilty to being a felon
in possession of a firearm in
2016, is charged with the same
offense now in 2024.
On April 29 he
appeared before U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York
Magistrate Judge Barbara C.
Moses. Inner City Press was
there, the only media in the
SDNY Mag Court.
The
Complaint says police noticed
Raphael's car with an
obstructed license plate on
Eastchester and Williamsbridge
Roads in The Bronx and asked
to search it. He declined, but
get back into his car when
told not to. They arrested him
and then searched his car,
finding a gun.
In a
post-arrest statement he said
he had stolen the gun from a
girlfriend, for his own
protection. He was detained on
consent.
On May 28,
Raphael was indicted and the
case assigned to Judge Lorna
G. Schofield. She endorsed a
scheduled on June 18; on June
26 Raphael was arraigned and
pled not guilty, before
Magistrate Judge Robyn F.
Tarnofsky.
On August 29,
Raphael and his second lawyer
appeared in the SDNY
Magistrates Court seeking
release on bond. Inner City
Press was there:
AUSA: We agree to
release on $100,000 bond but
he should remain detained [in
MDC] until conditions met.
Judge: Why? AUSA:
He had to be fircibly removed
from his car...In MDC he
refused hand restraints then
pushed a corrections
officer
Judge: Why is the
government even proposing he
be released? Pre-Trial
Services recommends detention.
AUSA: It wasn't a violent
crime...
Defense: The
police put him face down on
the pavement in the rain. We
intend to file a motion to
suppress.
Judge (after a
break) I am releasing you on
your own signature, today,
with conditions to be met by
Sept 12.
The case is
US v. Raphael, 24-cr-339
(Schofield / Aaron)
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