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Multi-State Drug Case from Kansas DC Judge
Says Munchel Militates for Release But
Doesn't
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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FEDERAL COURT,
Sept 3 –
A multi-defendant Federal
narcotics conspiracy case out
of Kansas resulted in a
removal hearing on Friday,
September 3 before District
Court for the District of
Columbia Magistrate Judge Zia
M. Faruqui. Inner City Press
covered it.
The
defendant, Frank Gallo De Le
Cruz, is not a citizen but his
lawyer did not want to say of
which country he is a citizen.
Judge Faruqui noted that might
be consistent with the Fifth
Amendment right not to
self-incriminate.
An
Assistant US Attorney from
Kansas, with a British accent,
described search warrants on
lockers and the home of a
suspected coorderator being
burned down.
Judge Faruqui
said that the DC Circuit's
decision in the Januaty 6
Munchel case militated for
releasing the defendant - but
that the Munchel case is not
binding on the District of
Kansas, which could appeal his
release.
So he put the
case over untli Tuesday, with
the defendant still detained.
The AUSA from
Kansas said he had not
expected to be appearing by
Zoom and so had not dressed
up. He said he has another
virtual appearance in
Colorado.
This case in DC
is US v. Gamboa-Saenz, et al,
21-mj-589 (Zaruqui)
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