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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 20 -- A four-year employee
of the Yonkers Parks
Department had been detained
on charges of armed kidnapping
- but Inner City Press has
learned more than was included
in the indictment and press
release by the Southern
District of New York U.S.
Attorney's Office.
Owen
Drain's alleged victim was a
male, long-time commercial sex
partner who escaped running
from Drain's black Cadillac
Escalade after having his
iPhone and iCloud wiped of
images of their sexual
relationship, Assistant US
Attorney Ni Qian said in a
bail proceeding only covered
by Inner City Press.
SDNY Magistrate Judge
Barbara C. Moses asked AUSA
Qian if the Yonkers cell phone
store employee who came out to
the Cadillac where the victim
was held and took his
passwords was not, in fact, an
accomplice. Qian said that is
being investigated.
Federal Defender Jonathan
Marviny argued that Drain in
his 35 years of live has had
no convictions, and is now
living with his wife and his
father in Tuckahoe, New York.
(The street address was said
in open court but Inner City
Press is voluntarily not
publishing it in this format.)
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here.
Drain was
arrested in Harrison, New York
on February 17 in the black
Escalade, without a license
plate on it but with two
inside, along with a bottle of
testosterone, an expandable
baton illegal in New York, a
gun and portable digital
scale.
While Drain was released on
bail for that, the detective
who accompanied him into the
SDNY Magistrates Court got
into an audible disagreement
with U.S. Marshals, referring
loudly to HIV and saying "What
do you want me to do, a blood
test?"
After Judge Moses
ordered Drain detained, she
said that the FBI should take
him to the hospital first. The
case is US v. Drain, 20-cr-145
(Moses).
Note: An
earlier version of this
article did not have the
defendant's first name as
Owen. Mea culpa. Now it
does.
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