| Man From San
Jose Arrested With 5 Kilos of Cocaine in
The Bronx, Flying Back to California
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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Exclusive, Sept 9 –
In the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York on September 9, a
detention hearing was held by
Magistrate Judge Steward D.
Aaron on a defendant who
traveled from San Jose,
California and was found with
five kilos of cocaine in The
Bronx.
The
Assistant US Attorney urged
the detention of defendant
Rivera, citing the presumption
and the quantity of cocaine.
But
Rivera's Federal Defender Ian
Marcus Amelkin said he is only
22 years old, worked security
in San Jose until the
pandemic, and wanted to fly
back there tomorrow. He
pointed out that the AUSA had
agreed to a bail package with
co-defendant Velez,
represented by Lincoln Square
Legal Services under the CJA.
Judge Aaron
returned from a session with
Pre Trial Services and said he
would release Rivera on
$50,000 bond, but only
tomorrow to allow the
government a chance to appeal.
The AUSA
said there would be no appeal
so Rivera would be released,
with the agents encouraged to
help him get back into the
apartment he was arrested in,
pending a US travel order
flight on September 10 to San
Jose (where, in a parallel
universe, Elizabeth Holmes of
Theranos is on trial in
Federal court).
This case is US
v. Rivera, 21-mj-8793 (Aaron).
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