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Felon Arrested
While NYPD
Searched For
Another Who
Pled US Asks
for 5 Years
Prison
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 26 – NYPD
officers
staked out 300
East 143rd
Street in The
Bronx on June
14, 2022,
looking to
apprehend a
shooting
suspect.
They
grabbed Jarel
Sable - not
the suspect -
but say they
found on him a
weapon, that
as a felon it
was a Federal
crime to
possess.
The
actual suspect
was arrested
the next day;
Sable has been
in custody
since,
awaiting trial
on felon in
possession
charges.
On
July 31, 2023
there was an
evidentiary
hearing before
U.S. District
Court for the
Southern
District of
New York Judge
John G.
Koeltl. Inner
City Press was
there, the
only media in
the courtroom.
Sable's lawyer
Jacqueline
Cistaro put
her
investigator
in the case, a
former NYPD
officer, on
the witness
stand. He
uthenticated
photos he took
on May 12,
2023 of 300
East 143rd
Street (and
three other
buildings in
the Patterson
Houses),
focusing on
the location
of security
cameras and
what could and
could not be
seen.
He
said Patterson
Houses'
management
office told
him they had
not kept the
security
tapes.
On
October 13,
the US
Attorney's
Office wrote
in "requesting
that the Court
schedule a
change of plea
proceeding"
later in
October.
On
October 16,
Judge Koeltl
set the plea
date, with
trial: "re:
Scheduling
Change of Plea
Proceeding.
ENDORSEMENT:
The Change of
Plea
proceeding
will occur on
October 25,
2023. If the
plea does not
go forward,
Trial will
proceed as
scheduled on
November 7,
2023. So
Ordered.
(Signed by
Judge John G.
Koeltl on
10/16/2023)."
On
October 25
Sable did, in
fact, plead
guilty:
"Minute Entry
for
proceedings
held before
Judge John G.
Koeltl: Change
of Plea
Hearing as to
Jarel Sable
held on
10/25/2023.
Deft pres
w/atty
Jacqueline
Cistaro. AUSA
Brandon
Thompson. Deft
enters plea of
guilty to
Count 1 of
indictment."
In
the run-up to
a belated July
1 sentencing,
Sable's CJA
lawyer cited
two years in
the MDC and
asked for a
downward
variance. The
AUSA asked for
a brief
extension of
time to file
its sentencing
request.
On
June 26 the US
Attorney's
Office wrote
in and asked
for 60 monhts
on July 1.
The
case is US v.
Sable,
22-cr-409
(Koeltl)
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