| For Robbery
of Target in The Bronx Russell Got 40
Months Now Cooperator Gets Time Served
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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April 18 –
Target in The Bronx was robbed
of $215,000 on March 26, 2018.
The robber Tsani Russell was
caught and sentenced to 40
months.
His co-defendant
who worked at Target and gave
him the key because a
cooperator.
On
April 18, U.S. District Court
for the Southern District of
New York Judge Naomi Reice
Buchwald held a sentencing
proceeding. Inner City Press
covered it, as the only
media.
Judge
Buchwald began by asking each
person on the call to identify
themselves. Inner City Press
did. After the Federal
Defender began recounting how
his client was pressured and
received only $1500, Judge
Buchwald said she would give a
time served sentence but had
questions about supervision -
and emphasized there can be no
drug use (including marijuana,
which remains under Federal
prohibition).
Judge Buchwald
indicated that some of the
money should be paid back. The
Federal Defender cited a
Second Circuit case against
that, and will put in a letter,
as will the AUSA. Inner City
Press may continue to cover
this legal issue.
The
cooperating defendant spoke
for herself, apologizing to
those working at Target who
were there during the robbery
and saying she was making bad
decisions at the time. She
said she has lost 50 pounds
and been vegan for the past
two years.
She
said she is renting a room in
Hamilton Heights in Upper
Manhattan for $1200 a month -
she is thinking of moving
(back) to the Bronx. She said
she did not want this
following her forever, nor her
current company to know.
While Judge
Buchwald acknowledged that the
felony conviction cannot be
erased, Inner City Press has
chosen to not here report the
name.
The case is US v.
Russell, et al., 19-cr-554
(Buchwald)
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