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Burnt Bronx
Smoke Shop Man
Got SDNY Plea
to Pot
Possession Now
Complete
Pardon
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY Exclusive,
Jan 30 – Mohammed Kassim tried
to return marijuana he bought
from a smoke shop at 1274
Castle Hill Avenue on March
13, 2023. They refused to take
it back.
He returned on
March 17 and lit the store on
fire.
On November
17, 2023 Kassim was brought
before U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Magistrate Judge Robert
W. Lehrburger to plead guilty
- to possession of marijuana.
While marijuana is now level
at the New York State level,
it is not at the federal
level.
This was
the SDNY prosecutors' way to
finesse the arson charge. They
indicated they will agree to a
sentence of six months in a
halfway house, but
successfully opposed release
on bond for the holidays.
In the
gallery, along with Inner City
Press, the only people were
Kassim parents, with
interpretation headphones on.
On November 20,
the US Attorney's Office put
in a letter asking for six
months in a halfway house.
More detail and
analysis on Substack here
On November 30,
Judge Lehburger gave the time
served plus seven days so that
the defendant can be
transferred from BOP to RRC by
December 7.
On January 30,
Kassim came in before Judge
Lehrburger resulting in this
docket entry: "D pardoned.
Case closed. Probation
services discontinued." We
will have more on this.
The case
is US v. Kassim, 23-cr-608
(Lehrburger)
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