| Dominican Diplomat Got 179
Months as Drug Lord Now Co-Defendant Arrested,
CJA Lawyer
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- The
Source
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Oct 24 – Jeremias
Jimenez-Cruz, once the Consul
General for the Dominican
Republic to Jamaica, was in
detention in the US as a drug
lord awaiting trial. On May
14, 2020 he sought released
based on COVID-19, before U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Kimba M. Wood. Inner
City Press covered it.
Jiminez-Cruz'
lawyer insisted, loudly and
repeatedly, that there was no
evidence against his client.
But Judge Wood
cited video evidence, and the
defendant's sizable incentive
to flee.
He was a
Dominican Republic diplomat -
if he got back to DR, he would
be sitting pretty.
The proceeding
was ironic, in that UN bribery
convict Francis Lorenzo, who
as Deputy Permanent
Representative to the UN of
current UN Security Council
member the Dominican Republic
paid bribes to UN PGA John
Ashe - is now back working for
the Dominican Mission, and
entering the UN.
But in this case,
Judge Wood denied release.
On March 16,
2022, this: "the Dominican
Republic’s former Consul
General to Jamaica, JEREMIAS
JIMENEZ CRUZ, was sentenced
today to 179 months in prison
for using his position and
contacts in the government of
the Dominican Republic to
import cocaine into the United
States. JIMENEZ CRUZ was
sentenced by U.S. District
Judge Kimba M. Wood.
JIMENEZ CRUZ previously pled
guilty to conspiring to import
more than five kilograms of
cocaine into the United
States."
In October 2022,
his co-defendant Jessika
Fuentes Sanchez was arrested,
and via a CJA 23 Financial
Affidavit that is not (yet?)
public, was assigned a
Criminal Justice Act lawyer;
"Detention on consent without
prejudice." Jiminez Cruz has a
retained lawyer. We'll have
more on this.
The case is US v.
Jimenez-Cruz, 19-cr-326
(Wood).
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