| With Cotto on Trial For
Drugs FBI Special Agent Describes Controlled
Buys in East Harlem
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 15 – Ervin Ortiz was
arrested as part of a
multi-defendant narcotics
conspiracy.
On May 20, U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Jed S. Rakoff held his
sentencing. Inner City Press
covered it, below.
Now with
co-defendant Eddie Cotto on
trial, on July 15 an FBI
Special Agent identified him
and described controlled buys
on Lexington and 110th Street,
how he would park his car on
109th Street to observe.
Back on June 30
the US Attorney's Office filed
its motions in limine, arguing
that evidence of Cotto's
previous drug offenses should
come in, but his conditions of
pre-trial detention should
not. We'll see - the trial ,
according to the May 14 docket
entry, is set for July 12.
On May 20 Judge
Rakoff said that while Ortiz
had not met his
responsibilities, neither had
society met its
responsibilities to Ortiz.
He said Ortiz'
crimes were not violent, and
all sprang from addiction that
was never treated. He said if
he had his druthers, some of
these drugs would be
legalized.
The sentence was
66 months. It is a
sentencing the transcript of
which is worth reading.
The case is US v.
Cotto, et al., 18-cr-413
(Rakoff)
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