| In SDNY Mag Court Accused Kidnapper
Says Enrolling in Dutchess Community College But
Detained
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
August 8 – 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
case numbers
given only
later, on August
8, an
alleged
kidnapper was
presented with
a case number
but a lot
of doubts
about both his
and the
government's
stories.
Jonathan
Cummings is
charged with
kidnapping a
women and two
children at
gunpoint and
driving them
to New Jersey,
ultimately
dropping or
dumping them
at a mall in
Edison, New
Jersey.
Cummings'
Federal
Defender said
the
complainant is
a fraudster
who might be
trying to
extort
Cummings, who
he said he
planning to
enrolling in
Dutchess
Community
College before
the next
semester. The
government
noted it's
almost back to
school time
and he has not
enrolled.
Ultimately, he
was not
released,
unlike at
least one of
two
Arizona-based
meth
defendants,
more on which
anon.
Back
on August a
sex offender
was processed
and remanded
by the name of
Townsend, not
listed on the
day's New
Presentment.
Townsend
went missing
from the
homeless
shelter on
Creston Avenue
in the Bronx
he was
assigned to.
His Federal
Defender said
the shelter
moved him. But
it seems he
disappeared
from the
second
location too.
He was in on
Violation(s)
of Supervised
Release
including
cocaine and
PCP. He was
remanded, with
a next day
before Judge
Alvin
Hellerstein on
September 4
and not
before, the
fill-in AUSA
said, due
to medical
issues. Judge
Moses admonished
the US
Attorney's
Office for leaving
Townsend in
the MCC over
the weekend,
and asked for
a written
submission of
reasons. But will
that be
public? Under
what case
number? On the
PACER terminal
in the SDNY
Press Room
Inner City
Press has
worked perched
over since
April, none of
the defendants
named Townsend
have Judge
Hellerstein as
their judge.
Unregistered
sex offender,
indeed. We'll
have more on
this.
at least one
case had no
number at all.
A defendant
named Edwin
Gonzalez
was presented
as just in
from Rikers Island, remanded
on the
consent of his
CJA lawyer and
in need of methodone.
Later on
August 1, also
remanded but
with a case
number because
indicted and
extradited
from Estonia
which got
consular
notice was
Nikolai
Niftalijev,
charged with
narcotics
inportation
conspiracy.
He's set to
resurface on
August 6
before SDNY
Judge Oetken.
Inner City
Press aims to
be there.
Remands were
to the
Metropolitan
Correctional
Center - where
as Inner City
Press has exclusively
exclusively
reported
fellow
non-reporting
sex offender
Jeffrey
Epstein is
hogging the
legal meeting
room with paid
lawyers
working in
shifts so he
can be out of
his cell,
using the
Internet.
Inner
City Press
will continue
to try to find
the missing
cases on the
Press Room
PACER terminal
it has worked
perched over
for months.
Watch this
site.
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