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Charged After Wire Tap of Bronx Stash
House Still Detained Now 1 Argues for Bail
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY MAG COURT
EXCLUSIVE, Oct 14 - In
the U.S. District Court for
the Southern District of New
York on October 13, three
detention or bond proceedings
were held by Magistrate Judge
Katharine H. Parker. Inner
City Press was there, the only
media in the Mag Court.
Defendant
Andy Mercado, arrested with
two others after a month's
wire-tapping and observation
of a drug stash house on
Loring Place South in The
Bronx, asked to be released on
bond. His lawyer said the
"Andy" on the wire taps might
not be him. But his passport
was found in the drug filled
room.
He was
detained, as were Nelson Olivo
and lead / named defendant
Joel Cosme Figueroa, who the
AUSA linked to fake oxy pills
being left for a customer
called "stupid chick."
The three were
formally indicted on October
26. On December 29, Mercado's
lawyer filed a more formal
request for a conference to
(re) argue for bail, arguing
that his client was out of the
country, was not a squatter
but a repairman, and listing
the annual incomes of proposed
co-signers of a $500,000 bond.
The overall case
is now US v. Cosme Figueroa,
et al., 22-cr-582 (Caproni)
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