| Bronx Rapper
Detained As Fugitive Doing Sh*t Lyrics
Read Out In SDNY Magistrates Court
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 25 – A 20-year old
Bronx rapper on the run from
Federal law enforcement since
April has been captured after
posting to Facebook from a
newly bought cell phone.
On
September 25 U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York
Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn
held a detention proceeding.
Inner City Press exclusively
covered it.
Assistant US
Attorney Adam Hobson recounted
how Count Cooks was named in a
multi-defendant drug
conspiracy indictment in
April, and on the run since
then. He made a point of
quoting Cooks' lyrics from a
recent song: "I'm a fugitive,
but I'm still doin'
sh*t." More on Patreon here.
Cooks'
assigned Criminal Justice Act
lawyer from Kramer Levin, who
had just consented to the
detention of other assigned
clients named Hill and Martinez,
made an application for bail.
He said later in
the case there could be
consideration of the
evidentiary weight of rap
lyrics, a topic Inner City
Press has written and been
quoted on (here
on the SDNY trial with Tekashi69
in The New Yorker).
But in
this case, Judge Netburn
concluded that there were not
set of condition that could
assure the safety of the
community.
Cooks was
detained, and there is no
listed court appearance until
November. In the indictment he
is a/k/a CJay. Inner City
Press will stay on this and
other cases in the SDNY.
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