| Man
from Venezuela
Charged With
Armed Car
Jacking in
Manhattan Is
Detained for
Trial
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 24 –
In the
Magistrates
Court of the
SDNY on May 24
a bail or jail
hearing was
held on
defendant
Alexis
Mercedes,
charged with
an armed
car-jacking on
Sixth Avenue
in Manhattan
while on
parole in a
New Jersey
case.
Presiding
was U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York
Magistrate
Judge Gabriel
W. Gorenstein.
Inner City
Press there,
thread here:
OK
- now at bail
hearing for
man charged
with armed car
jacking of a
ride-share
vehicle on 6th
Ave in
Manhattan -
from which he
drove to a
nightclub in
The Bronx. He
has a retained
(paid) lawyer
Here
in Mag court
there's a
break in the
action - Judge
asked if
defendant's
New Jersey
parole said
"no guns."
Neither side
knew: they're
checking.
Defendant has
a face tattoo.
Defense lawyer
now emailing
the
judge.
After
25 min break,
AUSA returns
to tell judge
Bergen County
probation says
they cannot
look at
defendant's
conditions of
release. So
law of
Middlesex
County is
quoted.
Defense
lawyer calls
it a gray
area, and says
NJ gun laws
are being
struck down
under
Bruen.
Judge
Gorenstein: I
am ordering
detention. If
convicted, he
would be
deported [to
Venezuela], he
has an
incentive to
flee.
The
case is US v.
Mercedes,
23-mj-4230
(Gorenstein)
***
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