| For
Armed Robbery
of East Harlem
Store
Callender Had
Bail Reversed
Now Pleads
Guilty
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 25 – Saquan Callender and
Cordell Ballenger were
arrested and charged with the
August 18 gunpoint robbery of
a convenience store on E. 116
Street in East Harlem.
The two
were in the same Complaint,
but they ended up being
separately indicted and their
cases assigned to different
District Judges.
Callendar
was initially ordered released
on $20,000 bond in the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrates Court, which Inner
City Press covers, often the
only media there. That order
was reversed in Part 1.
On October
11 Callender was formally
indicted and his case wheeled
out to new District Judge Dale
E. Ho, seemingly his first
case, at least criminal case,
in SDNY.
On August 14,
Cordell Ballenger in his now
separate case pled guilty.
Inner City Press was there,
and will be reporting on both
(linked) cases.
On
September 19, Judge Ho
docketed: "ORDER as to Saquan
Callender. The Court has been
advised that the Defendant may
want to enter a change of
plea"
And he did plead
guilty, before Magistrate
Judge Parker, on September 25:
"before Magistrate Judge
Katharine H. Parker: Change of
Plea Hearing as to Saquan
Callender held on 9/25/2024.
Defendant appeared in
courtroom 5A with Attorney
Sylvie Levine. A.U.S.A.
Meredith Foster present for
the Government. Defendant pled
guilty to Count Two &
Three of the Indictment. Judge
Parker recommends that DJ Ho
accept the guilty plea.
Defendant continued
incarcerated. PSI Ordered
Transcript Ordered. Control
Date: 12/27/2024."
The case is
US v. Callender, 23-cr-523
(Ho)
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