| Man Who
Absconded to Nigeria Returns On COVID
Flight To Arrest And Now Do Over
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Oct 21 – Joseph Ighodaro was
on supervised release in 2009
when he was permitted to fly
back to Nigeria to visit his
ailing mother.
Then he didn't
return.
Finally in
April 2020 he got on a flight
repatriating US citizens from
Nigeria, with his expired
passport, and re-entered the
country.
He searched for
Probation, he says, in its
former location on Broadway
but couldn't find it. He went
to Maryland and got
arrested.
On October
21 U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge William H. Pauley III
held a violations of
supervised release proceeding.
Inner City Press covered
it.
The US
Attorney's Office was not
seeking detention, and Judge
Pauley did not impose it.
He told Ighadaro
he was getting a "do-over" -
time served and two more years
of supervised release. Do not
travel again to Nigeria, he
said.
The case is US v.
Ighodaro, 07-cr-759 (Pauley)
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