On
Fentanyl Death
in Bronx
Daycare After
45 Years
Sentence Parra
Paredes Asks
for 10 Years
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Oct 24 – Following the death
of a one-year old baby by
fentanyl, on September 19,
2023 the US Attorney for the
Southern District of New York
charged Grei Mendez and
Carlisto Acevedo Brito.
On September 25,
with no notice and Inner City
Press initially the only
person in the courtroom
gallery, the third man was
brought in: Renny Antonio
Parra Paredes. Inner City
Press live tweeted, thread
On February 12,
Inner City Press went to a
possible change of counsel
hearing on lead defendant
Felix Herrera Garcia - but
soon Judge Rakoff asked
everyone but Herrera Garcia
and his still counsel to leave
the courtroom, "even my
favorite reporter."
On June 10, the
day of jury selection on
Herrera Garcia, his trial was
canceled; he pled guilty.
On July 11,
another guilty plea, Inner
City Press was there, thread
And on October
16, this 45 year sentence:
"FELIX HERRERA GARCIA was
sentenced to 45 years in
prison for trafficking
fentanyl out of a daycare in
the Bronx, which resulted in
the death of one child and the
poisoning of three others."
For the October
22 sentencing of co-defendant
Jean Carlo Amparo Herrera, the
US on October 15 wrote in
asking for 120 months. The
defense asked for five years,
the mandatory minimum - Late
on October 18 the US wrote
in citing texts from
Grei Mendez, with whom Judge
Rakoff has urged the
prosecutors to proffer...
On October 22,
Inner City Press was there, thread:
OK - now
sentencing in Bronx deadly
fentanyl daycare case of Jean
Carlo Amparo Herrera - lead
defendant got 45 years. Today
as only media here, Inner City
Press will live tweet
Victim (parent)
statement: My grandfather who
lived to 114 told me, Watch
out who you associate with.
Like this defendant, I was
injured, driving for Uber. But
I didn't turn to crime. The
pain for us is unimaginable.
Victim (parent)
speaker: I stopped by the
cemetery on my way here. I ask
for justice. Defendant: I
apologize. I was involved in
drugs to support my
family. Judge: The death
of the child looms large - but
this is a criminal case, not a
tort case.
Judge: I sentence
the defendant to ten years in
prison.
On October 24
co-defendent Parra Paredes
wrote in asking for the
mandatory minimum ten years;
sentencing is sent for October
31.
More on Substack
here
The case is US v.
Herrera Garcia et al.,
23-cr-504 (Rakoff)
Watch this site.
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