| For
Armed Robbery
of East Harlem
Store
Callender Pled
Guilty Now
Gets 110
Months
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
March 12 – 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
pled guilty to Count Two &
Three of the Indictment."
On February 28,
2025 the US Attorney's Office
wrote in asking for 130
months.
He got 110
months: as to Saquan Callender
(1). The defendant pleaded
guilty to counts 2 and 3 of
the Indictment. All open
counts are dismissed on the
motion of the United States.
IMPRISONMENT: 110 months
imprisonment 26 months on
count 2 and 84 months on count
3 to be served consecutively.
The Court recommends that the
defendant be incarcerated in
FCI Otisville if appropriate
The case is
USA v. Callender, 1:23-cr-523
(Ho)
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