| In SDNY Scull Ceballos From
Cuba Is Bailed Out Charged With 20 Kilos of
Coke To Avoid Detainer
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 16 – A defendant named
Scull Ceballos was presented
on a sealed indictment on
January 16 in U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York
Magistrates Court, charged in
connection with 20 kilograms
of cocaine delivered from
Colombia to Miami.
Scull Caballos,
it emerged, came to the United
States from Cuba in 1996. He
had another drug arrest in
1998 but was not deported
"because of his nationality,"
Assistant US Attorney Thomas
John Wright
said.
Wright argued for
detention, noting that the
defendant facing ten years in
jail could travel to Cuba by
recreational boat in 90
minutes and not be
extradicted.
But Federal
Defender Julia Gallo pointed
to his common law wife in the
gallery, where Inner City
Press was the only media; she
argued for release on bond the
same evening so no erroneous
ICE detained would keep him
detained for 90 days. (She
said this happened to another
client, before SDNY Magistrate
Judge Kevin N. Fox, from a
West African country which
does not accept its citizens
back if deported from the
US.)
On January 16
Magistrate Judge Katherine H.
Parker made the common law
wife a court-appointed
custodian and told her she
would have to call the police
if he tried to escape. Pre
Trial Services, given the
hour, was unable to put on a
GPS location monitoring
bracelet. That will be
tomorrow.
The case, which
even after the proceeding did
not show up in PACER, is US v.
Scull Ceballos, 20-mj-631
(Parker).
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