| Chimbo Came From Ecuador
Then Sold a Kilo of Heroin Now Gets 20 Months
and Deportation
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Oct 1 – Rober Alberto Galvez
Chimbo came to the US from
Ecuador to support his family.
A year later he was arrested
arranging a one kilogram
heroin deal. He has spend 13
months in the MCC jail and
contracted COVID-19.
On
October 1 U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York Judge Sidney H. Stein
held a sentencing proceeding.
Inner City Press covered it.
The US Attorney's Office was
pushing for a sentencing of 57
to 71 months.
Judge Stein asked, as he is
wont to do, "Why did you do
it?" Chimbo said, to support
my family. I will not do it
again.
Judge Stein
inquired more with the AUSA,
how Chimbo got so many
connections so quickly. But he
quickly sentenced Chimbo to 20
months, which means seven
more, then deportation.
The case is USA
v. Chimbo et al., 19-cr-570
(Stein)
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