| After
Fentanyl Death
of 1-Year Old
in Bronx Day
Care 2 Are
Detained in
SDNY, 1 on Lam
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Sept 19 – Following the death
of a one-year old baby by
fentanyl, on September 19,
2023 the US Attorney for the
Southern District of New York
charged Grei Mendez and
Carlisto Acevedo Brito.
The charge was
and is narcotics possession
with intent to distribute
resulting in death and
conspiracy to distribute
narcotics resulting in death
in connection with the
overdose of four children
under the age of three, one of
whom died, at a daycare
facility in the Bronx on
September 15, 2023.
Inner City
Press went to the SDNY press
conference and asked US
Attorney Damian Williams if
his office would be seeking
pre-trial detention (yes) and
if those upstream who sold the
fentanyl would be charged with
the death. No answer, at least
not yet. Video here.
The duo
was set to be presented in
SDNY Magistrates Court, to
which Inner City Press next
turned. It was present there
for hours. Thread here:
Brito is brought
out, already in MDC tan
uniform.
Magistrate Judge
Jennifer Willis now presiding
in US v Brito
AUSA
Thompson: We seek detention.
Defense: We consent at this
time.
Brito is
led back into the holding cell
[and later to MDC, where SBF
is complaining about lack of
vegan meals and fast enough
laptop. Brito, it seems clear,
will not be exempted from
prisoner count like Sam is]
OK - now fentanyl
daycare Ms Mendez has been
brought out. She is crying.
Federal
Defender: Ms Mendez is a 36
year old legal resident. She
worked in a restaurant. She is
a single custodial parent, now
that her husband has fled.
Judge: I am going
to detain you. Mendez: Aye,
no! [crying]
Federal Defender
goes back on the record to say
she has diabetes. Both sides
agree: she will be in MDC
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