| After SDNY Bronx Alleged Gang
Presentments Chief Judge McMahon Upholds
Bail of Mickey
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 19 -- Even amid the
Coronavirus COVID-19 crisis,
on March 17 Inner City Press reported
that for a large Bronx gang
"take-down" the Magistrates
Court was being moved in the
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York,
to a large courtroom on the
24th floor.
The move
came after complaints about
group arraignments by defense
lawyers, and calls for social
distancing. Inner City Press
covered seven proceedings in
Courtroom 24B on March 17, on
narcotics,
immigration
and "hoaxes."
On the
afternoon of March 18, from
the US Attorney's Office Press
Office, the other shoe
dropped, see below. And in
Courtroom 24B the defendants
were bought in one by one,
with masks covering their
mouths, at least one coughing
loudly.
US
Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman
came in to watch, conferring
briefly with his Assistant US
Attorney Danielle Sassoon.
(Downstairs in 5A, which US
Attorney Berman also visited,
his Office's request for a
stay of a Dominicant
extraditee was denied by the
presiding Magistrate Judge and
appealed to Part 1).
The legal
issues in 24B were not
confined to group
presentments. For defendant
Matthew Nieves, Berman's AUSA
proposed release on the
condition he not move back
into 3063 Hull Avenue where,
they said, there is video
footage of him being beaten
and hit on the head with a
chair by another gang member.
But, his
lawyer said, Nieves' wife and
their two kids live there.
Judge Aaron declined to impose
that condition, and the
prosecutors said they would
appeal, presumably to the
March 19 Part 1 judge, Chief
Judge Colleen McMahon.
But on
March 19 when Inner City Press
inquired, only the case of the
defendant alleged to have used
to chair for head-hitting,
Tyerance Mickey, was appealed
to Judge McMahon.
Mickey
was in a yellow jumpsuit; his
lawyer said he had spent the
night in Essex County but now
had his family members and
sureties present. Judge
McMahon asked about the
availability of a GPS location
monitoring bracelet without
which, she said, she would
allow Mickey to be released.
Inner
City Press is informed that
the current lack of GPS
bracelet is due to the higher
percentage of defendants being
bailed with location
monitoring during the
Coronavirus crisis. As Inner
City Press first reported
earlier on March 19, SDNY
Judge Alison Nathan has freed
a detainee specifically citing
COVID-19, here.
The Part
I appeal proceeding ended with
Judge McMahon saying that
Judge Aaron had hit the nail
on the head, and thanking him
for the way the arraignments
were carried out the day
before. To Mickey, she said
she is a judge with zero
tolerance for violations of
supervision and to not have
any weapons including, she
said, a chair to hit someone
on the head with.
On March 19 in
both Judge McMahon's courtroom
and in the temporary large Mag
Court a floor beneath, even
family members were told to
sit six feet a part. Inner
City Press will continue to
attend and report on these
proceedings. Watch this site.
The filing:
"Indictment charging ALEXANDER
ARGUEDAS, a/k/a “Reckless,”
MICHAEL DELAGUILA, a/k/a
“Grizz,” STEVEN JUSTO, a/k/a
“Riko,” DAVONTE BROWN, a/k/a
“Tae,” JACOBB PADIN, a/k/a
“Chino,” EDGARDO BARANCO,
a/k/a “Slime,” ABBAS OZKURT,
a/k/a “AB,” JAHVONNE CHAMBERS,
a/k/a “JV,” DENISE BULLOCK,
a/k/a “Mocha,” SIMONE CORDERO,
a/k/a “Mixy,” MATTHEW NIEVES,
a/k/a “WB,” TYERANCE MICKEY,
a/k/a “Hoodlum,” and MARK
BROCK, a/k/a “Rover,” with
racketeering, firearms, and
narcotics offenses, in
connection with their
membership and association
with the Black Stone Gorilla
Gang (“BSGG”). ARGUEDAS
is also charged with the
December 9, 2012, murder of
Gary Rodriguez. ANDRE
CURRY, a/k/a “Flex,” is
charged with narcotics and
firearms
offenses.
"Seven
defendants were arrested today
and will be presented this
afternoon before United States
Magistrate Judge Stewart D.
Aaron." Watch this
site.
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