| Cooperator Who Fled SDNY in
1996 Before Sentencing Is Returned
by Marshals and Bailed
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
April 25 – Ramon Arias De Le
Cruz was to be sentenced, with
a cooperator's agreement with
prosecutors, in the late 1990s
in the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York. But he did not show up.
He fled.
On April
25, 2024 - more than 25 years
later - he was brought by the
U.S. Marshals before SDNY
Magistrate Judge Barbara C.
Moses. Inner City Press was
there, the only media in the
SDNY Mag
Court.
De La Cruz had a
lawyer in pro hac vice from
Florida, who said that his
client had fled New York City
so long ago because he faced
threats. He asked that he be
released to live with his
sister in the city, with a
location monitoring ankle
bracelet.
Judge Moses
issued a similar release
order, with a $50,000 bond
with co-signer and all
conditions to be met before
release.
The prosecutor
said he would flee again. But
he lacked paperwork, which he
said had been put into storage
in "Missouri or Iowa." Now it
was being scanned.
But will it
be put into PACER, where the
first 16 entries in the case
are all dead links? Watch this
site.
The case is US v.
De La Cruz, 96-cr-543 (Preska
/ Moses)
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