| In SDNY Murky Mag Court Cruz
Detained On Passport Charges With Diplomatic
Security
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive, Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 20 – While many even most
cases in the Magistrates Court
of the U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York are
sealed, on
June 20 Magistrate
Judge Sarah
Netburn in processing
a
defendant
named Nelson
A. Cruz
did not use
the word
sealed or
docketing
delayed.
No case
number was
given; nor
was it explained
why
accompanying
the Assistant
US Attorney
was an
agency of
"Diplomatic
Security." Cruz
waived any
pre-sentencing
report since
he was said to
already be in
state custody. But
the Federal
charges are
falsely
applying for a
passport, and
aggrevated
identify
theft. How does one
do that, while
in state
custody? Without
the Mag Court
numbers being
provided, it
is impossible for
now to know.
But Inner City
Press will
endeavor to
stay on this
case like
others.
On
June 19 Judge
Netburn,
who the
previous day
sealed and
delayed
docketing on a money
laundering
case from New
Jersey
completing the
tri-state
trifecta, told
defendant
Ricardo Reynoso about
a program she and
another
SDNY judge
(apparently
SDNY Chief
Judge Collen
McMahon)
run. It is
called Young
Adult
Opportunity
Program.
Because
Inner City
Press is not
*only* about
pushing for
transparency,
for example
of the a suddenly
sealed
sentencing
before Judge
Lorna G.
Schofield on
June 17,
we link to this
program here.
It's all to
the good. So is
transparency,
including on
warrants.
We'll have
more on this.
On
June 12 Alberto
Carrasco a/k/a
Moreno came
through the
Mag Court,
charged
with agreeing
to sell a
kilo of heroin
in The Bronx.
The
Complaint, 19-MAG-5567,
has the DEA's
Mark Hadzewycz
recounting
that on June 3
Confidential
Source-1 spoke with
Carrasco or
Moreno then
met him on
June 5 on
Washington
Avenue in The
Bronx. CS-1
was showing a
"six pack" photo
array
afterward and
picked up
Moreno. On June
11 on
Lorillard
Place they met
again, agreeing to
the sale of heroin
in what the complaint
calls a Bronx
Shopping
Center.
Carrasco
or Moreno in
fact brought
the drugs, or
a weighed bag,
from a
"particular
multifamily
home in
Mamaroneck,
NY." It
was 1.17
kilograms of
heroin. He
has been
detained, with
Magistrate
Judge Katharine
H. Parker writing
on the order
additional
reason:
pending order
of protection,
strength of
evidence
including
results of
search of D's
premises." His
lawyer is CJA
Kelly Sharkey; this;
his preliminary hearing is set
for June 26. Inner City Press,
occupied
at that time with a rogue
cop's sentencing, aims to be
there.
The
next hearing
for Bryan
Pivnick is
July 1.
Inner City
Press and @SDNYLIVE will be there.
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