On
Fentanyl Death
in Bronx
Daycare
Herrera Garcia
Cancels Trial
by Plea Grei
Mendez Next
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 10 – 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.
On September 25,
with no notice and Inner City
Press initially the only
person in the courtroom
gallery, the third man was
brought in: Renny Antonio
Parra Paredes. Inner City
Press live tweeted, thread
On January 23,
Paredes' lawyer argued, and
lost, before the assigned
District Judge Jed S. Rakoff:
"Minute Entry for proceedings
held before Judge Jed S.
Rakoff: Oral Argument as to
Felix Herrera Garcia, Grei
Mendez, Carlisto Acevedo
Brito, Renny Antonio Parra
Paredes held on 1/23/2024. The
trial date is adjourned to
6/10/2024
On February 12,
Inner City Press went to a
possible change of counsel
hearing on lead defendant
Felix Herrera Garcia - but
soon Judge Rakoff asked
everyone but Herrera Garcia
and his still counsel to leave
the courtroom, "even my
favorite reporter."
On June 10, the
day of jury selection on
Herrera Garcia, his trial was
canceled; he will plead
guilty. Beyond Grei Mendez
(severed) and another
pleading, there are two other
listed defendants, one of whom
arraigned...
Back on March 21,
Grei Mendez was brought into
the Magistrates Court to be
arraigned on a superseding
indictment. Inner City Press
was there, thread
the Court severed
Ms. Mendez from the jury trial
of her co-defendant set to
proceed on June 10, 2024, and
a new trial will be calendared
in her case."
More on Substack
here
The case is US v.
Herrera Garcia et al.,
23-cr-504 (Rakoff)
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