| Decade
After Drug
Conviction Man
Was Told To
Rehab or Jail
Now Must In
Patient 6
Months
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 13 – Hector Lopez
pled guilty in a drug case
back in 2012. He is still
under supervised release.
On July
19, 2023, U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York Judge P. Kevin Castel
held a violation of supervised
release proceeding on and with
Lopez. Inner City Press was
there.
Judge
Castel said if his only two
choices were leaving Lopez
free on the streets of New
York, or remanding him to
jail, he would choose the
latter.
He had two US
Marshals in the back row where
Inner City Press also sat; he
asked them to stand up.
He asked if Lopez understood,
and was told yes.
The plan
is for Lopez to check into
Cornerstore drug rehab. Judge
Castel said he he leaves, he
faces remand.
On August 16,
Federal Defenders filed their
sentencing submission, asking
for two months in a
residential reentry center.
They recount Lopez as a child
being moved from North
Babylon, Long Island to Puerto
Rico to East Harlem. His
father took up with a younger
woman and the family fell
apart. Later he was introduced
to fentanyl - in a rehab
center. He left, and that is
one of the specifications
against him.
On September 13,
Lopez again appeared before
Judge Castel. Six months of
in-patient treatment were
ordered, to begin the next
day, with a sentencing control
date of January 17, 2024.
The case is
US v. Lopez, 11-cr-568
(Castel)
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