| Bronx Drug Robbery and
Deadly Fall Lead To SDNY Detention As US Cites
Felony Murder
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 5 -- Jeffrey Guzman de
la Cruz is said to have
participated in the attempted
armed robbery of a drug dealer
in an apartment in 940 Grand
Concourse in March 2017,
during or just after which a
woman went out the window of
the apartment's kitchen and
fell to her death.
On March 5,
2020 - three years later - he
was in U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York Magistrates Court, and
the government sought
detention. His co-defendant
Miguel Sarante, represented by
Sullivan & Cromwell,
consented to detention. But
Guzman de la Cruz sought bail,
represented by Sabrina
Shroff.
Shroff
argued that Guzman de la Cruz
was no longer in the apartment
when the women went out the
window, then in the
alternative that even if he
were to still have been in the
apartment, the struggle had
nothing to do with her going
out the window to her death.
The
Assistant US Attorney
responded with a two word
phrase: felony murder.
Suddenly Guzman de la Cruz'
post-arrest statement was cast
in a different light.
Judge Kevin N. Fox denied the
request for bail. Inner City
Press will continue to follow
this case. It is US v. Guzman
de la Cruz, 20-cr-157 (Liman /
Fox)
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