| Man
Released by
EDNY Detained
in SD Now
Co-Defendant
Pled Guilty
Sentencing Feb
9
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Jan 27 – A defendant who was
released on bond in the U.S.
District Court for the Eastern
District of New York on June 8
was detained in the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
on June 9.
Inner City
Press was there.
SDNY Magistrate
Judge Sarah Netburn said that
she was not bound in any way
by the previous day's decision
by an EDNY judge whose name
she didn't even have.
The SDNY
prosecutor said the EDNY case
was only about guns; the SDNY
case is about financial
crimes, having access to 90
people's bank accounts and 60
cell phones.
Judge Netburn said the
pre-trial services report
showed a life of escalating
crime and a lack of candor,
ranging from the number of
siblings to where the
defendant went to
college.
The Federal
Defender - a free lawyer for a
man with 90 people's bank
accounts - said his client has
started in a masters program
in Florida.
Judge
Netburn ordered him detained.
That decision was repeated by
District Judge Vernon S.
Broderick, as Part 1 Judge, on
June 21.
On July 6, after
the case was indicted and
assigned to District Judge
Mary Kay Vyskocil, Evans was
arraigned. Inner City Press
was again there. Evans pled
guilty to three counts
including aggravated identity
theft - which would carry two
years consecutive.
Jump cut to June
17, 2024. Evans' lawyer asked
for a continuance - and for
bail for this client. Judge
Vyskocil asked why he had not
followed her order and applied
in writing. He cited a knifing
murder in the MDC (previously
first reported by Inner City
Press) and the defendant's
family, in the gallery, being
willing to put up a three
family house in Brooklyn with
$750,000 in equity. Judge
Vyskocil said crimes could
still be committed, and said
trial would take place in the
week of November 18, if the
case is not resolved.
Jump cut again to
September 12, when a
co-defendant was added to the
case, via a superseding
indictment. A joint conference
was set for November 14, with
the trial presumably pushed
back.
In early January
2025 the co-defendant's lawyer
wrote in asking, with dates
changed, for permission to
travel to Massachusetts. The
request was denied.
On September 2,
2025 the US Attorney's Office
wrote in to explain why "the
two defendants in this case
are each charged on separate
indictment" - one had "agreed
to plead guilty," now no
longer the case.
On September 4,
Evans pleaded guilty. On
January 27, 2026 his lawyer
wrote in about 2026 Proposed
Amendments to the Guidelines.
Sentencing has been pushed
back to February 9.
The case is now
USA v. Evans, 1:23-cr-301
(Vyskocil)
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