| Man Who
Quit Harlem
Drug Dealing
for NJ Got
Time Served
Smith Serving
20 Years 15
More?
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 3 – Daquan
Garnett was
part of a
narcotics
conspiracy
selling in
Harlem housing
projects in
2019.
Then
he withdrew
and moved to
New Jersey. He
was still
arrested.
On
August 18,
2023 he was up
for sentencing
before U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York Judge
Katherine Polk
Failla. Inner
City Press
covered it.
Garnett has
been working
at FedEx in
Newark. He
said he would
like to move
to the South,
"not a big
city."
He
asked for a
time served
sentence and
after question
received one,
while Judge
Failla noted
that selling
poison where
your
grandmother
lives is
troubling. She
was told he
didn't grow up
there.
On
January 25,
2024 for
co-defendant
Isaiah Smith,
defense
counsel wrote
in asking for
60 months
concurrent to
a twenty to
life sentence
he is serving
for a homocide
conviction
after trial in
2023.
On
February 2-3,
the US
Attorney's
Office asked
for 15 year
consecutive to
the 20,
including
photos of the
point black
shooting in an
East Harlem
liquor store.
The
case is US v.
Hawkins, et
al., 21-cr-414
(Failla)
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