| After Multiple
Searches of South Bronx Drug
House Rosario Pled Now US Asks
15 Years
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Feb 2 – Luis Rosario was
presented and ordered detained
on February 15 for his role in
a South Bronx drug house in
which people have died.
In the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrates Court, Inner City
Press was the only media
present. Exclusive thread:
OK - now at 6:25
pm here in SDNY Magistrates
Court, Luis Rosario charged
with distribution of fentanyl
-resulting in 12 deaths by
overdose, allegedly - out of
755 Coster Street in the
Bronx.
AUSA: I
understand there will be a
bail application. But this is
a presumption case. He is the
leader of a conspiracy, it was
deadly - it has caused death.
The investigation is still
ongoing. I suspect it will be
ongoing. Someone died in the
house
AUSA: CC-3 owns
the home. They sell fentanyl.
He's lived at 739 Coster since
2009. Narcotics have been
repeatedly seized, the DTO
returns. He poses a risk to
many people.
Judge: The
Bronx DA conducted annual
search warrants? AUSA: All but
one year. The first was in
2015 - drugs and gun. 2016 and
2018, searches. 2019: Crack
and heroin. 2020: crack and
heroin. 2022, magazine for
9mm. April 2023, he was
arrested on 2d floor, drugs
AUSA:
Yesterday he was arrested in
the vestibule, narcotics
there. Witnesses call him the
boss. But he said, yesterday,
he just plays dominos there.
We have UC buys.
AUSA: He was not
deterred by people dying in
the home he's dealing drugs
out of. Unresponsive male - it
had rigor mortis. The area had
been cleared of drugs -
suggesting there was a delay
in calling 9-1-1. It takes six
months, in this city, to get
the test results
AUSA: The
co-defendant is currently
fleeing from the law. This is
his first Federal offense, it
carried a ten year minimum.
His rap sheet is a series of
pleading out out to lesser
offenses. He has 15 narcotics
arrests
AUSA: There are
"death resulting" charges very
probably coming down the line.
Federal Defender: Luis Rosario
is 67 years old, a US citizen
with no passport. He has
resided in The Bronx for 50
years, the last 11 with his
wife. He is not violent
Federal
Defender: The Bail Reform Act
compels Mr. Rosario's
release... He had colon
cancer, he would be living a
mile away from 755 Coster.
Judge: The US has
shown danger, and I do not
thing conditions to release
him exist
He was detained.
Jump cut to March
11, 2024: the District Judge
who now has the case, Gregory
H. Woods, allowed Rosario out
on $75,000 bond co-signed by
two financially responsible
people, no contact outside the
presence of counsel with seven
people, and "no travel within
three blocks of 755 Coster
Street, Bronx."
Jump cut again to
September 18, 2025 when
Rosario pled guilty to Count 1
before Judge Woods.
On February 2,
2026 the US Attorney's Office
wrote in asking for 180 months
on Rosario on February 9.
The case is now
US v. Rosario, 24-cr-107
(Woods)
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