| Charged With Crack
Conspiracy In The Bronx Martin Ross Pled and
Now Gets 96 Months
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 2 – A crack cocaine
conspiracy with then only one
defendant was alleged in
December 2019 to be taking
place around 168th Street and
Fulton Avenue in The Bronx.
Jose L. Irizzary was charged
in the Complaint, but it was
Destiny Romero and Mikal Tariq
Leahr who were arrested.
On January
6, 2020 Judge Sidney H. Stein
of the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York held a conference with
both of those arrested. He
said, "We have somebody that
is a fugitive here; Mr. Ross,
correct?"
Assistant US
Attorney Jacob R. Fiddelman
replied, "That's correct. Mr.
Ross has not yet been
apprended."
On February 12,
2020 in the SDNY Magistrates
Court, with Inner City Press
the only media present, Martin
Ross was brought in shackled,
and left the same way.
Magistrate Judge
Robert W. Lehrburger confirmed
that he was being "remanded on
consent," and would appear
with the others at a
conference before District
Judge Stein.
Jump cut
to nearly a full year later,
on February 20, 2021: "The
trial is adjourned to May 17,
2021."
In March 2021,
more delay: "ORDER as to
Martin Ross: IT IS HEREBY
ORDERED that: 1. The final
pretrial conference scheduled
for April 19 is adjourned to
August 16, 2021, at 10:00
a.m.; 2. The dates in the
endorsed letter [Doc. No. 61]
are adjourned as follows:
proposed jury charges,
proposed voir dire, and any
motions in limine, are due by
July 30, 2021, responses to
any motions in limine are due
by August 6, 2021; 3. The
trial of this action is
adjourned to August 30, 2021,
at 9:30 a.m.; 4. The parties
should be aware that although
the Court is submitting the
jury request for this trial to
begin on August 30, 2021, the
trial date may be rescheduled
by the Court's Ad Hoc
Committee on the Resumption of
Jury Trials to another date in
the third quarter of 2021. The
Court will notify the parties
as soon as the third quarter
trial calendar has been
established for trials."
In March 2022,
after a guilty plea, 96
months: "Defendant Martin Ross
(1) pleaded guilty to Count(s)
1s (Count One in the (S1)
Indictment). Count(s)
Underlying Indictment is
dismissed on the motion of the
United States. IMPRISONMENT:
96 months. The court makes the
following recommendations to
the Bureau of Prisons: 1. That
defendant be transferred from
the MDC to a facility that can
afford defendant with greater
educational and vocational
programs and exercising
programs. 2. That defendant be
incarcerated in the tri state
area in order to facilitate
visits with his family.
SUPERVISED RELEASE: Five
years. Standard Conditions of
Supervision (See page 4 of
Judgment). Special Conditions
of Supervision (See page 5 of
Judgment). ASSESSMENT:
$100.00, due immediately. The
defendant shall forfeit the
defendant's interest in the
following property to the
United States: $16,450.00 in
U.S. currency."
The case is US v.
Ross, 19-cr-913 (Stein /
Lehrburger).
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