| Man Who
Sold Crack
Once Lost
Housekeeping
Job Got 5
Years Now US
Wants 15 on
Co-D
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 18 – Brandon Wilkins was
facing sentencing for selling
crack in Brooklyn. His lawyer
in a September 7 submission
wrote that he was working as a
housekeeper but lost the
position in 2019 and "resorted
to selling cocaine base in the
vicinity of Vernon Avenue and
Lewis Avenue in Brooklyn."
He'd attended an
all-boys school called
Berkshire Farm High School in
Canaan, NY through the 11th
grade.
On pre-trial
supervision he lived in an
apartment in Newark, NJ then
at the end of August 2022
moved to a shelter in New York
City. Then, seeking to resolve
a warrant in Virginia he was
remanded there, for three and
a half months in the Pamunkey
Regional Jail. He wanted time
served. Inner City Press has
been covering the case, as
part of its Endless Sentences
project.
As docketed on
October 2, Wilkens got sixty
months, with Fort Dix
recommended. He must also pay
$5,280 in forfeiture.
Jump cut to April
10, 2025, when co-defendant
Jamell Williams though counsel
asked to be sentenced to 60
months as a street level drug
dealer when he is sentenced on
April 23.
On April 18 the
US Attorney's Office asked for
180 months on Wilkins.
The case is US v.
Wilkins, 21-cr-424 (Kaplan)
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