| As Career Offender Gets 6
Years For 6 Grams of Crack in Bronx' Claremont
Powder Questions
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- ESPN
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Dec 22 – Leonardo Fernandez is
classified as a career
criminal. In four months in
2018 and 2019, in the
Claremont neighborhood of The
Bronx, he sold six grams of
crack to undercover officers.
On
December 22, 2020 U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge John G. Koeltl held his
sentencing. Inner City Press
covered it.
Assistant US
Attorney Andrew Chan said that
Fernandez had set up his own
open air drug market in
Claremont.
Judge
Koeltl asked how much crack
was at issue. Six grams
was the answer.
And what
would be the offense level if
it were powder cocaine, versus
crack? The difference was 12
for powder, 16 for
crack.
The guideline
sentence started at 151
months. Judge Koeltl sentence
Fernandex to 72 months or six
years.
The case is US v.
Fernandez, 19-cr-267 (Koeltl)
***
Your
support means a lot. As little as $5 a month
helps keep us going and grants you access to
exclusive bonus material on our Patreon
page. Click
here to become a patron.
Feedback:
Editorial [at] innercitypress.com
SDNY Press Room 480, front cubicle
500 Pearl Street, NY NY 10007 USA
Mail: Box 20047, Dag
Hammarskjold Station NY NY 10017
Reporter's mobile (and weekends):
718-716-3540
Other, earlier Inner City Press are
listed here,
and some are available in the ProQuest
service, and now on Lexis-Nexis.
Copyright 2006-2020 Inner City
Press, Inc. To request reprint or other
permission, e-contact Editorial [at]
innercitypress.com
|
,
