| Belliard or Montas Defendant
Speaks Movingly of Welding and Addiction Gets
48 Months in SDNY
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 23 – Anthony Belliard was
arrested as part of a
multi-defendant narcotics
conspiracy.
He spoke with the
government and on June 23,
under the name Jafet Montas,
was asking for time served.
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Chief Judge Colleen McMahon
held the sentencing. Inner
City Press covered it.
The
defendants lawyer explained
that Montas is the name his
client uses. He said he was a
low level look-out, in the
conspiracy mostly to have
access to heroin, to which he
was addicted.
Assistant
US Attorney Domenic Gentile
countered that the defendant
was trusted enough to carry
the drugs to the street
dealers, as well as to fill in
for them sometimes. There was
a dispute about abuse in
prison that Inner City Press
is choosing not to report, at
least until a promised
investigative report is filed,
if it is.
The
defendant spoke for himself,
movingly, about losing his
father who was a hard worker,
what ever else he did, and
about wanting to learn
welding. Judge McMahon wished
him well, while sentencing him
to 48 months.
The case is US v.
Belliard, 18-cr-802 (McMahon).
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