| Man
Detained For 7
Guns in Harlem
Is Freed For
Colonoscopy
After MDC Says
He Refused
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
May 25 – Dexter Washington is
detained after fentanyl and
seven fire arms including an
AR-15-type rifle and other
assault weapons were found in
his apartment in Harlem.
On May 25,
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrate Judge Gabrial W.
Gorenstein ordered Washington
released, after his lawyer
said he was being denied
access to a colonoscopy.
An
official from the
Metropolitan Correctional
Center in Brooklyn was present
on speaker phone and said that
Washington has twice refused
medical treatment.
Judge
Gorenstein and the Assistant
US Attorney concluded that the
first refusal was not a
refusal, in light of
Washington being brought to
court.
The second refusal
occurred on a Sunday, when
Washington had been taken to
the Special Housing Unit in
preparation for a Tuesday
colonoscopy. His lawyer said
he was denied hot water; there
was testimony that hot water
is not required, and that
Washington had been allowed to
take his medication into the
SHU with him.
Washington
was ordered released on a
$500,000 bond with four
co-signers, GPS and home
incarceration but for medical
and legal appointments.
The case is
US v. Washington, 23-cr-31
(Schofield / Gorenstein)
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