NYPD
Officer
Arrested For
Kilo Fentanyl
Sale Plan Got
Trial Date Now
Pleads Guilty
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY EXCLUSIVE,
April 16 – A NYPD officer who
was on modified duty for three
years was arrested and
presented on October 20 in
Federal court for trying to
selling kilo-weight fentanyl.
Inner City Press was there.
She was released on $100,000
bond.
U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrate Judge James L. Cott
was presiding. Inner City
Press thread:
AUSA Amanda
Weingarten: Rosa Grace Baez
worked in the NYPD precinct in
the East Village, this was her
side hustle. She had a kilo
press with her boyfriend Cesar
Martines. She was placed on
modified duty 3 years ago. It
is eggregious. She resigned
yesterday.
CJA: She wants
bail
Defense: She owns
a house in the Bronx, has 2
children. Her father flew up
from the Dominican Republic
today to be here. Don't put a
now former police officer in
the MDC...
AUSA: My
understanding is that the
investigation of Baez 3 years
ago was for consorting with
gang members and drug dealers.
[Echo of US v Mestre case
Inner City Press first covered
here
Judge: I am
setting bail for Ms Baez:
$100,000 bond with 2
co-signers. She can be
released on her own signature
today, home detention in her
Arnow Ave home.
Jump cut to March
28, 2024 - Baez out of
custody, and Martinez in from
the MDC, appeared before Judge
Denise L. Cote, who set an
October 21, 2024 trial date.
AUSA Weingarten said she had
gotten the funds to blur a
cooperating witness out of a
video to be provided in
discovery. There were
supporters, for both, in the
courtroom.
Jump cut to April
16, when she pled guilty:
"GRACE ROSA BAEZ pled guilty
today to conspiracy to
distribute and possess with
intent to distribute heroin,
fentanyl, and
para-fluorofentanyl.
BAEZ pled guilty before U.S.
District Judge Denise L.
Cote."
The case is now
US v. Baez et al., 24-cr-164
(Cote)
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