| Bronx
Man Arrested
with Gun on
161 Street was
Brought From
Rikers Pleads
Asking 18
Months
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 1 – Joseph Otero, a
felon, was arrested in a car
with a gun on St. Ann's Avenue
and 161st Street in The Bronx.
On October 24, 2023 Otero was
brought from Rikers Island for
presentment before U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrate Judge Katharine H.
Parker. Inner City Press was
there, the only media in the
SDNY Mag court.
The prosecutor
said on this felon in
possession charge, they would
seek detention.
Otero's CJA
lawyer said he was consenting
to detention, as Otero had
been in Rikers unable to make
his (state) cash bail.
Jump cut to March
4, 2024, when Otero was
arraigned before District
Judge Jed S. Rakoff.
On April 8, Otero
in the yellow jumpsuit of the
Essex County Department of
Corrections was brought into
SDNY Magistrates Court and
pled guilty, to a Pimintel
letter for 30 to 37 months.
The AUSA asked him to admit to
a forfeiture allegation: the
gun. A control date for
sentencing was set for July 8.
On July 1,
Otero's lawyer wrote in and
asked for a sentence of 18
months.
The case is US v.
Otero, 24-cr-120 (Rakoff /
Netburn)
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