| In SDNY Murky Mag Court Brito Was
Charged With Crack Now Murder Possible
Capital Case
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 4 – While
many even most
cases in the
Magistrates
Court of the U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York are
sealed or have
case numbers
given only
later, back on
August
27
before
Magistrate
Judge Katherine
H. Parker a
defendant
Yefrel Brito
was presented
and detained
to the MCC, without
a single
mention of
murder.
That
would come
later. On
September 4,
to be exact.
Back on August
27, Brito's
25 hour gap
between arrest
and
presentment
mis-portrayed
on his Initial
Appearance
form as being
a single
hour. The form
says Date of
Arrest
8/27/19, Time
of Arrest 4:30
pm, Time
of Presentment
5:35 pm. One
hour would
be a record.
In fact, as
revealed in
the Complaint,
Brito was
arrested the
day before on
August 26.
He was
crossing
Valentine Avenue in
The
Bronx against
the light when
Police
approached him
and observed,
according to
the Complaint,
a plastic
twist and
currency
sticking out
of his
sneakers. He
confessed to
marijuana and
then had 80
ziplocks of
crack found on
him. He was
detained on
consent.
Then on
September 4,
with Inner
City Press
again the only
media in the
SDNY
Magistrates
Court, Brito
re-appeared.
This time, he
is charged
with murder.
He appeared
with one
co-defendant,
Robert Wilson;
the third and
last (for now)
Kevin Crosby
was presented
earlier on
September 4.
All three
could face the
death penalty.
A special
yellow form
was ordered
filled out by
Magistrate
Judge Debra
Freeman. The
case, hours
later, is
still listed
under
seal.
On
August 26 a
defendant came
in after
self-surrendering
in a
multi-defendant
bank fraud and
ID theft
case.
His name
seems to be
Scott Acheampong
a/k/a Montana
in the indictment
19-cr-582, assigned
to SDNY
District Judge
Alvin K.
Hellerstein
who will see
Montana on
September 5.
He was bailed
for $50,000
and allowed to
travel to
Connecticut,
with
urinalysis.
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