| From Michoacan Carrillo
Berger Came to NY To Work But Pressed Into
Drug Courier Now Deported
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 11 – Pablo
Carrillo-Berber was up for
sentencing on June 11 before
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Paul A. Crotty. Inner
City Press covered it.
Carrillo-Berber's
lawyer Gary G. Becker
described his client as a
"41-year old peasant native of
a Paracuraro, a small town in
the western state of
Michoacan, Mexico." While
working at a fruit market in
New York City he agreed to
pick up and deliver two
packages." The complaint cited
sale of "'China,' which CS-1
understood to be
fentanyl."
Becker noted that
the Pre Sentencing Report is
wrong he was born in 1968 - it
was 1978. And he has five not
six surviving siblings. And
they work in the fields, he
said. Becker said his client
has had a hard time in the MDC
- first the cut off of heat
("Judge Furman said it was
reminiscent of a Third World
County," the lawyer says) and
now three months of COVID
lockdown.
Becker said
since all of Carrillo-Berber's
family is in Mexico, he was
his only visitor in jail,
always greeted with a smile
and handshake (presumably,
until recently).
Carrillo-Berger
wrote his own letter, which is
in the docket, one to which we
hope to return.
Judge Crotty
sentenced Carrillo-Berber to
Time Served and to be released
forthwith to ICE for
deportation.
The case is US v.
Carrillo-Berber, 18-cr-703
(Crotty).
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