| In Multi Defendant Drug
Case 1st Guilty Plea Triggered
Remand Request but Denied in SDNY
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURT
EXCLUSIVE, Aug 28 - In
the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York on January 25, 2023 as
later on January 31, detention
or bond proceedings were held,
by Magistrate Judge Sarah L.
Cave on multiple defendants
arrested in an Upper Manhattan
and Bronx drug case.
Presented
in Federal court on January 25
after arrest the day before
were, among others, defendants
Lazareth Paulino and Abreu.
The latter was arrested
outside an apartment on Ogden
Avenue in The Bronx.
After
argument, he was ordered
released on $100,000 bond to
another apartment in The
Bronx, on Bryant Avenue, after
signatures by co-signers.
By
contrast, Lazareth Paulino who
sought release to an apartment
on Audubon Avenue four blocks
from what the judge called
"the set" was ordered
detained, without prejudice to
reapplying.
On January 31,
another co-defendant in the
case was before Magistrate
Judge Jennifer E. Willis:
Jonathan Rodriguez. His
retained counsel said he is in
withdrawal but could move 50
blocks south to the Harlem
apartment of his girlfriend,
who he named.
The
Assistant US Attorney, who had
asked for detention, named
four unindicted
co-conspirators with who
Rodriguez should not speak
outside the presence of
counsel.
He was
released on $100,000 bond and
home detention.
On February
3, another co-defendent Eddy
Caminero appeared in
Magistrates Court. Magistrate
Judge Jennifer E. Willis said
he can be released "once he
located a residence, approved
by the Government and Pre
Trial Services, Outside of
Washington Heights."
On June 21, Eric
Eusebio was presented, the day
after arrest, in the same
case. Magistrate Judge Sarah
Netburn agreed to release him,
but only to an address on Daly
Avenue in The Bronx. His CJA
lawyer said he has a job offer
from Rising Ground, "driving
migrants." Judge Netburn said
I don't love you working as a
driver at this point; she also
asked that a copy of a plane
ticket he bought be turned in.
On August 21,
2023, Judge Woods held a
proceeding about co-defendant
Jeriel Abreu - he scheduled an
evidentiary hearing for August
28 at 1 pm on charges Abreu
had, among other things,
tested positive for drugs.
During the proceeding, two
U.S. Marshals came in and sat
in the back. But no remand was
ordered.
On August 24, the
US Attorney's Office wrote to
Judge Woods asking that he
authorize Pre-Trial Services
to release all records
maintained by PTS relating to
the supervision of Abreu from
April 6, 2023 to the date of
the hearing.
On August 28, the
hearing was held and Inner
City Press was there. Multiple
occurrence of being out of the
home - a rented room on Webb
Avenue in The Bronx - were
cites, some consisting of ten
minutes explained by picking
up food delivery from DoorDash
and UberEats, which defense
counsel said won't come up to
the fourth floor of buildings
in the Bronx.
But there
was a positive test for
fentantyl; Judge Woods cites
an missing hour returning from
the courthouse to The Bronx
and ordered remand. The US
Marshals moved in...
Jump cut to March
20, 2024, when co-defendant
Enmanuel Liriano pled guilty
before Magistrate Judge Gary
Stein. The AUSA sought
immediate remand under the
statute, distinguishing the
case before that of US v.
Chavez. But defense counsel,
two of them, said at least
three SDNY judges release in
these circumstance.
The AUSA named three
who do not. But in this case,
Liriano is the family's sole
breadwinner, working at Costco
in Hackensack. His bail was
continued.
The overall case
is US v. Santos, et al.,
22-cr-522 (Woods)
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