For Drug Dealing
in the UK Man Tracked to Hilton
on 40th Street Now Signs for
Extradition
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Feb 3 – A man wanted in the UK
for drug trafficking in
Portsmouth was arrested
Saturday in the Hilton Double
Tree in Times Square in NYC.
He was presented and ordered
detained and extradited on
February 3 in the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrates Court, which Inner
City Press closely covers.
The US
Attorney's Office filed a
Sealed Complaint for
Provisional Arrest with a View
Toward Extradition of Samuel
Joseph Watts. It recounted the
UK's allegations, including
that Watts conspired with
others "as part of an
Organized Crime Group to
supply crack cocaine and
heroin to drug users in
Portsmouth, England."
In the UK,
Watts was released on bail -
then did not show up in the
Portsmouth Magistrates Court.
Then U.S.
Marshals, "with the assistance
of UK law enforcement, traced
the IP address used by Watts
to access his suspected AirBnB
to the Hilton Double Tree in
Times Square" - where he was
registered under his true
name.
On
February 3 he was ordered
detained, and he signed
consent to extradition back to
the UK.
The case
is USA v. Watts, 1:25-mj-349
(Wang)
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