| Millbrook Cooperator Joey
Colon Gets Time Served In Rare Telephonic
Sentencing in SDNY
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
April 13 – In a rare felony
sentencing conducted by
telephone on April 13
cooperator Joey Colon was
given a time served sentence
in a drugs and guns conspiracy
concerning the Millbrook
Houses development in the
South Bronx.
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Analisa Torres, whose
previous reflections on the
history of the Millbrook
Houses at sentencings Inner
City Press has reported on, on
April 7 cited Section
15002(b)(2) of the CARES Act
in setting up the telephonic
sentencing.
(On April 13 SDNY Chief Judge
Colleen McMahon said that
video cameras should be ready
by April 14 in the MCC and
MDC; their availability in the
cooperators' private GEO
prison in Queens is not clear
to Inner City Press.) On
the April 13 telephone
sentencing call, Colon's
lawyer Camille M. Abate
described Colon's childhood.
At 12, he was "left alone in a
two bedroom apartment in the
Millbrook Houses." At 13, he
was sentenced as a juvenile to
18 months
incarceration. In
a separate filing Assistant US
Attorney Jordan Este described
to Judge Torres the founding
of the "up the block" gang MBG
of "Mill Brook Gangstas"
(there is another name), and
its bloody battles with "down
the block" rival
Killbrook.
Estes wrote, "MBG's rivalry
with Killbrook began in 2007,
after MBG member Joey Colon
shot an individual from 'down
the block.'" The government's
5K.1 letter, as of the time of
the sentencing, was not part
of the public docket, in which
numbers 652, 632, 630, 612,
590 and 589 and before are
sealed.
Judge Torres after announcing
the time served sentence asked
Mr. Colon to help turn other
youths away from the wrong
path, and wished him well. The
case is US v. Colon, 17-cr-611
(Torres).
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