| Drug Convict
Eschewed Safety Valve Because DTOs Have
PACER Too So Gets 60 Months
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 11 – More than 50 years
old, Mario Alberto Ramos was
arrested transporting fentanyl
in December
2019.
On March 11, U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York
Judge J. Paul Oetken held his
sentencing. Inner City Press
covered it.
Ramos'
lawyer, who the day prior had
effectively argued for a lower
sentence for an MS-13 member,
explained why he client had
not taken the government up on
its offer of the so-called
safety valve.
He said, drug
trafficking organizations have
access to PACER and could find
out.
So Ramos
eschewed the safety valve.
Still he got consideration,
and the mandatory minimum:
five years.
The case is US v.
Ramos, 20-cr-29 (Oetken)
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