| Man
Whose Brother
Cooperated Got
Gun So 28
Months Then
Out Now
Arrested so
Feb 23
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 2 –
Derek
Parsons got
out of jail in
June 2022 but
felt immediate
danger to
himself and
his mother.
His brother
Davin has
testified as a
cooperating
witness in a
murder and
racketeering
case.
Derrick
Parsons got a
gun, and got
arrested.
On February
17, 2023 U.S.
District Court
for the
Southern
District of
New York Judge
Jed S. Rakoff
held his
sentencing.
Inner City
Press went and
covered it, as
one of only
two people in
the courtroom
gallery. The
other was
Derrick's
mother.
Derrick
Parsons,
speaking for
himself, said
that when he
got out he
checked in
with Probation
within the
required 72
hours and
asked them to
relocate him
and his
months. He was
told, That
will take
time.
That's
why he got a
gun, he said.
Judge Rakoff
said the best
defense was
the one
asserted by
the defendent
himself. He
imposed a
sentence of 24
months, with
two years of
supervised
release to
follow with
the search
condition.
Derrick
Parson's
lawyer asked
that he not be
placed near
New York but
rather Memphis
and/or Atlanta
- and not
after the hard
jail time to
any halfway
house, but to
home
detention.
On
March 24,
Parson - and
again his
mother, in the
gallery where
Inner City
Press was -
appeared
before Judge
Victor Marrero
on the VOSR.
He asked for
time served,
or one day;
the government
wanted six
months. Judge
Marrero
settled on
four months,
and again the
recommendation
of Atlanta.
On
December 21,
2023, Parsons'
counsel wrote
to Judge
Rakoff seeking
reduction of
sentence to
time served.
Parsons asked
the warden of
FCI Berlin,
that he needs
to care for
his maternal
grandmother
Marlina
Parsons. He
finished his
GED and works
as a suicide
companion. The
plan is no
longer Atlanta
- his uncle
there got
divorced and
moved away.
But his
material
grandmother is
in New York.
On
January 5,
2024, the US
Attorney's
Office
replied,
opposing
release and
saying "it is
relatively
difficult to
believe that
the defendant
has ever
exercised any
meaningful
role as a
caregiver to
his
grandmother...
He has spend
the vast
majority of
the past
decade and a
half
incarcerated."
Vicious
circle.
The
defendant was
arrested on
December 18,
2025, and
released on
conditions.
AUSA
Ariana Bloom
wrote in that
evidence will
be presented
about sale of
5F-ADB, many
mentions of
synthetic
marijuana. The
hearing is
February 23.
The
case is USA v.
Parsons,
1:22-cr-516
(Rakoff)
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