| Bolivia
Former Anti Narco Czar Was
Extradited In Found Guilty in
Trial Sentencing January 22
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Oct 23 –
The day before U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York US
Attorney Damian Williams
leaves the office, DOJ
announced that MAXIMILIANO
DAVILA-PEREZ, a/k/a “Macho,”
was extradited from Bolivia
and arrived in the U.S. this
morning to face federal
charges for conspiring to
import cocaine into the U.S.
and conspiring to use and
possess machineguns in
connection with this cocaine
importation conspiracy.
DAVILA-PEREZ will make his
initial appearance this
afternoon before the Honorable
Robyn F. Tarnofsky.
Inner City
Press went, and as the only
media in the SDNY Mag court,
live tweeted. Thread
On December 18,
he appeared (in Essex yellow)
before District Judge Denise
L. Cote, thread
On August 22 the
US Attorney's Office wrote in
asking on co-defendant Serrate
Middagh for 108 months on
August 29.
Inner City Press
went to the sentencing and
live tweeted. The defendant
sobbed, and said his daughter
was in the hall, he was too
embarassed to have her come
in. Then he was sentenced to
108 months.
On September 30
before the upcoming final
pre-trial conference the US
wrote it it plans to call CW-2
who was told by Cahuana that
the defendant told him that
"if the incumbent party in the
then-upcoming Bolivian
elections lost, the new party
would likely work with the US
against drug traffickers who
had been protected by the
ruling party in the past."
On October 9, in
the run up to a final final
pre trial conference, the US
Attorney's Office sent in a
heavily redacted letter
including that "public
disclosure of the name of
Application-1 could risk
jeopardizing ongoing
investigations."
On October 14,
Judge Cote began and completed
jury selection; opening
arguments were delivered and a
government witness about the
app took the stand. Defense
counsel asked if the
commercial version of the app
doesn't do GPS.
The jury found
him guilty: The deliberating
jurors returned a verdict of
guilty on both counts.
Sentence is set for January
22, 2026. Defense submissions
are due January 9. Government
submissions are due January
16. Detention continued.
More on X for
Subscribers here
and Substack here
The case is USA
v. Vasquez-Drew, et al.,
1:19-cr-91 (Cote)
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