| Colombian Who
Threatened to Tie Up Family
After Drugs Were Lost Gets 96
Months
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
March 26 – A Colombian man
charged with using other
people as drug mules, having
them swallow liquified cocaine
in condoms and then
threatening to tie up another
man and his family and dog
after cocaine was lost, was up
for sentencing on March 26
before U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Judge Analisa Torres.
Inner City Press was there,
the only media in the
courtroom.
Julian
Alberto Lemus Castro's lawyer
said his client had himself
been scared when the cocaine
went missing; he chided the US
Attorney's Office for using a
UN Office on Drugs and Crime
report about the dangers of
swallowing cocaine.
Judge Torres noted the
seriousness of the crime but
also the harsh conditions in
the Colombian jail the
defendant was held in prior to
extradition, and of the MDC.
She
sentenced him to 96 months, or
eight years.
The case
is US v. Lemus Castro,
21-cr-287 (Torres)
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