| Man
Who Drove Fentanyl and Gun From Wisconsin
to The Bronx Gets 4 Years, GED
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 2 - In the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
on November 2, defendant
Williams Soto-Montanez was up
for sentencing in connection
with bringing a gun and
fentanyl from Wisconsin to The
Bronx.
The US
Attorney's Office argued for
87 months imprisonment; the
defense lawyer, for a year and
a day.
District
Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil
inquired into the safety
value, and emphasized the
seriousness of fentanyl, when
one has to worry about even
kids at Halloween being
impacted.
Soto-Montanez spoke for
himself, and movingly. He said
he had made an enormous
mistake, that was unlike him.
He described conditions in the
MDC. His employer BSM
Transportation of West Allis,
Wisconsin had written a letter
for him, that they would hire
him back and have him train
other employees.
Judge
Vyskocil took a break to
collect her thoughts, then
reported to impose a sentence
of 48 months or four years.
The defense lawyer requested a
facility near Milwaukee, with
a GED program, calling his
client a deep thinker.
The case is US v.
Soto-Montanez, 21-cr-95
(Vyskocil)
The
defendant Malik Townsend was
put into state custody three
days after the robbery,
wearing a Rolex Day-Date watch
missing a diamond in a certain
location, "below where the
6:00 hour marker would be
located."
Citing the Hobbs Act, and the
interstate sales of the West
207th Street jewelry story,
the defendant was taken into
Federal custody on November 1
at 8:30 am.
Judge
Moses asked if his CJA lawyer
would be asking for release on
bond. He is already in state
custody, was the answer. "So
it would do much good." He was
detained on consent.
The case is
US v. Townsend, 22-mj-6683
(Moses)
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