| Man From
Bahamas Arrested For $1.2M Credit Card
Fraud Now Pro Se Asks Law Library Time
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Podcast
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
August 5 – Kevin Dion Rolle, a
citizen of the Bahamas, was
arrested in Puerto Rico on
charges related to a credit
card "bust out" scheme under
which using different names he
ran up charges over $1.2
million.
On
February 4, U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Alison J. Nathan held a
detention hearing, and Inner
City Press covered it.
Rolle was
described as living, prior to
arrest and now detention in
Essex County Correctional
Facility, with his husband Mr.
Stefon Hall in Manhattan, and
traveling down to Florida to
meet with his triplets from
his now-deceased wife, brought
up from the Bahamas by his
mother.
When Rolle was
stopped and questioned on June
4, 2020 in the Dallas / Fort
Worth International Airport,
he had a credit card in the
name of his mother, Joan Marie
Rolle, who had used Royal Bank
of Canada account statements
in support of the card.
Some $481,517 in
charges were run up on the
card.
Rolle's
Criminal Justice Act lawyer on
February 4 argued for release
on $250,000 bond, and noted
among other things that the
U.S. Bureau of Prisons
appeared not to be covered by
the recent Due Process
Protection Act and amendments
to Rule 5(f).
But the
government's filing show in
Rolle's search history, for
example, "Jamaican diplomatic
passport" and "fake passport
Roosevelt avenue."
Judge
Nathan ruled that Rolle is a
flight risk and that no set of
conditions could reasonably
assure his appearance at
trial.
Then in later
April, this: "ORDER as to
Kevin Dion Rolle, Jr. The
Court received a letter from
Mr. Rolle, which is being
transmitted immediately to
defense counsel and filed
under seal. By 2:00 p.m.
tomorrow, April 30, 2021,
defense counsel shall indicate
if he has any objection to the
Court providing a copy of the
letter to the Government.
Among other matters raised in
the letter, Mr. Rolle
indicates that he wishes to
represent himself."
And it's true.
Docketed on August 5: "LETTER
by Kevin Dion Rolle, Jr.
addressed to Judge Alison J.
Nathan dated July 9th, 2021
re: It has been relayed to me
that my trial date was moved
to the fourth quarter of 2021
and the Court requested
confirmation from the defense
and prosecution on the parties
readiness to proceed to trial
if an earlier date becomes
available. As of writing, I
can confirm that I am ready to
proceed to trial immediately.
As the Court is aware, it is
my intention to proceed
pro-se. In light of this, I am
requesting the Court's
intervention to facilitate the
following" - then a list, from
clothing to packed lunches to
access to legal research such
as requested from Judge Crotty
by Josh Schulte. Watch this
site.
Inner City Press
will continue cover this case.
It is US v.
Rolle, Jr., 20-cr-594
(Nathan).
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