| Pair Plead Guilty To Pouring Fluid on
NYPD Van As Carberry Cites Black Lives in
SDNY
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 22 – Elaine Carberry and
Corey Smith were charged with
lighting on fire an NYPD
Homeless Outreach Unit van on
University Place and 13th
Street on July 15-16, 2020
with a bottle of Patron
tequila.
They were
released on $100,000 bond;
Smith traveled to Washington
DC from August 27 to 30, 2020.
On October
21, 2020 U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York Judge Lewis J. Liman
held a proceeding "by Zoom
Video Conference." Inner City
Press covered it.
Federal Defenders suggested
reconvening in 60 days, to
review this Patron tequila
discovery.
Now on September
22 Inner City Press covered
the guilty pleas. Carberry in
her allocuation said on July
15, 2020 amid transnational
outrage at attacks on Black
life, she had tried to light
an NYPD vehicle on fire with
"hair spray or hand sanitizer,
I'm sorry I don't remember
which."
This was
not included in the DOJ's
press release: "Audrey
Strauss, the United States
Attorney for the Southern
District of New York,
announced today that COREY
SMITH and ELAINE CARBERRY pled
guilty to conspiring to burn a
marked New York City Police
Department (“NYPD”) Homeless
Outreach Unit van in the
Greenwich Village neighborhood
of New York, New York, in July
2020. SMITH and CARBERRY
pled guilty today before U.S.
District Judge Lewis J. Liman,
to whom the case is
assigned.
U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss
stated: “As they admitted in
court today, Corey Smith and
Elaine Carberry committed
arson, deliberately setting
fire to an NYPD van, then
minutes later returning to the
vehicle and – once again using
an accelerant – ensuring its
complete destruction.
Now Smith and Carberry await
sentencing for their willful
and wanton destruction of a
law enforcement vehicle that
had been used for outreach to
homeless New Yorkers.” Then
again, the allocution...
The case is US v.
Smith et al., 20-cr-544
(Liman)
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