| Alec Dupuis
Charged With Causing Death With Fentanyl
Was Denied Bond Next Is April 7
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 1 –
Alec Dupuis charged with
selling deadly fentanyl
(resulting in the death of 24
year old Peter Krasniqi on
August 11, 2020) and also
mushrooms containing psilocin,
had his condominium on West
56th Street in Manhattan
raided and search in December
2021.
But
he had heard the police were
coming and had left. He had a
airplane ticket to the UK, of
which he is a dual citizen.
The authorities
learned of the flight. His
mother hired a lawyer and,
after a few days, he turned
himself in and had been
detained
since.
On February 4, U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge Jed
S. Rakoff held a bond
proceeding. Inner City Press
covered it.
Retained
defense lawyer Ilana Haramati,
who also represented movie
producer Dillon Jordan on
prostitution charges, argued
to Judge Rakoff that a bond
could be secured by her
client's father, flush with
money from a whistleblower
case, she said.
But the
Assistant US Attorney
countered that the father had
been in Chapter 7 bankruptcy
and that the home, in Texas,
is highly leveraged. He
conceded that the US has an
extradition treaty with the
UK, but only for crimes on the
books in both countries - in
the same apparently.
Judge
Rakoff said, part of Inner
City Press' live
tweeted thread of the
proceeding, that "The
extradition issue is serious.
The huge penalties we have
make foreign courts eager to
avoid extradition to our Land
of Mass Incarceration."
The
defense lawyer tried, last
stab, to say that Mr. Dupuis
can execute a waiver of
execution.
Judge Rakoff replied, I will
reduce that as a
consideration. But there is a
glaring problem. He told
disguised drugs. It reflects
an attitude to the law and of
civilized behavior; he would
be a danger. He cares so
little that it led to the
death of another. I deny the
motion.
The final
tweet in the thread
was "Dupuis puts his hand over
his (red) hair, glances back
at the gallery. Now he is gone
with the US Marshals." But
that will not by the end of
the story.
On
Instagram, there is an account
of an Alec Dupuis, who is
aka-ed in the indictment as
"nysgas" with a photo of a
definition of gas as
high-grade marijuana and quote
from lyrics ("Smoking gas in a
rental / She giving me
mental") by Juicy J.
On March 1, this
was docketed: "Minute Entry
for proceedings held before
Judge Jed S. Rakoff: Telephone
Conference as to Alec Dupuis
held on 2/28/2022. A telephone
conference was held 2-28-2022
without transcription or
recording. AUSA Thomas John
Wright for the Government and
Ilana Haramati for defendant
were present. Defendants
motion to adjourn the deadline
for pretrial motions is
granted. The deadline is
adjourned to March 28, 2022.
The conference set to March
11, 2022 is adjourned to April
7, 2022 at 2pm in Courtroom
14B. (Pretrial Conference set
for 4/7/2022 at 02:00 PM."
This case is US
v. Dupuis, 21-cr-707
(Rakoff)
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