| In SDNY Murky Mag Court Twitching
Heroin Dealer Accused of Murder Is Denied
Bail
By Matthew
Russell Lee,
Exclusive, Patreon
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 31 – While
many even most
cases in the
Magistrates
Court of the U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York are
sealed or have
no case number
given, on July 31
before
Magistrate
Judge Ona T.
Wang,
things got
even murkier. A twitching
defendant
referred to as
Mister
Carastillo by
Judge Wang, or
Mister
Caraquillo by
himself -
neither name
shows up in
PACER - was
remanded to
the MCC on
charges he
sold heroin
which killed a
women on April
5, 2019 on
Avenue
D.
He
faces a
mandatory
minimum
sentence of 20
years,
according to
Assistant US
Attorney
Nicholas
Chiuchiolo
(who last week
sought to seal
a drug
sentencing
from the
Press,
including
which we have
further
inquired.)
His
wife was in
the gallery,
where Inner
City Press was
the only
media. She
cried, and
Judge Wang's
new Deputy
brought
tissues. Very
human - but
what is the
case number?
On July
29 a
man just
released from
a mental hospital
who had called
and emailed in
threats to
President
Trump, his
former
spokesperson
Sarah Sanders,
Trump Tower
and the SDNY
courthouse,
even GMHC
where he was
living, was
brought into
Mag Court in
shackles,
saying he
wanted bail.
The government
said his
threats waste
resources and
cause danger.
His Federal
Defender said
he is now on
medication,
and that his
phone could be
looked at
after the
fact.
After a
five minute
break that
turned into 15
minutes, Judge
Wang agreed he
can be
released on
bail: a
$25,000
signature
bond, a visit
by pre-trial
services to
GMHC, and the
promise to
threaten no
more.
Meanwhile a
defendant who
made a single
online threat
to DC's Mayor
is still
detained.
We'll have
more on this.
The case,
hours after
the
presentation,
is stilled as
under seal.
The
defendant's
name, as
pronounced -
no New
Presentments
list has been
provided - is
Mr De Luca
a/k/a Clark.
Murky,
indeed.
Inner City
Press was the
only media in
the Mag Court,
then returned
to the PACER
terminal it
has worked at
for months,
only to find
the case still
sealed.
Earlier
on July 29
defendant who
was referred
to as "Mister
Ochoa
Alvarez,"
names too
common to
usefully
search in
PACER, pled
guilty to 100
grams of
heroin. It was
a lesser
included
offense to the
original
charge, one
kilo. And it
took place in
Colombia, with
the prepondrance
of evidence
for venue
being a phone
call made from
the SDNY.
Twice Judge
Wang asked,
Was an promise
made beyond
the plea
letter? And
twice Mister
Ochoa Alvarez
said, Yes.
Until he we
convinced or
cajoled on the
third time to
say, No. He
will be
sentenced in
October. Inner
City Press
will continue
to try to find
the case on
the PACER
terminal it
has worked
perched over
for months.
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