Among 3
Charged with
Murder on
Dyckman St in
Manhattan 1
Now in 1st
Trial Knives
Shown
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 12 – Ramon Rodriguez is
charged with the murder of
Milton Grant around 175
Dyckman Street in Upper
Manhattan on June 21,
2021. Now in February
2026 he is on trial, with a
second trial set for March.
On June 20,
2023 Ramon Rodriguez was
presented in U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York
Magistrates Court. Inner City
Press was in Mag Court, the
only media there.
The
indictment cited another
“Victim-1.”
Rodriguez was
detained on consent.
Jump cut to July
30, 2024: Rodriguez and two
co-defendants were brought
into the courtroom of Judge
Jennifer H. Rearden and seated
in the jury box, occupied
until minutes before by jurors
in her daycare fraud trial.
Judge
Rearden noted that it has been
a year. The prosecutors said
plea discussion have progress
with two of the defendants; he
noted that two have been
charged before Judge Lewis J.
Liman with witness tampering,
in USA v. Rodriguez,
1:24-cr-417 (Liman)
The case on trial
in February is now USA v.
Rivera, et al., 1:23-cr-203
(Rakoff)
On February 10,
2026, a cooperating witness
Mr. Diaz was on the stand,
describing preparations for
the robbery, with masks and
two cars, Acura and Honda.
On February 12, a
MDC officer testified about
sharpened metal weapons found
in the cell – the cross
brought up that they could
have been hidden there a long
time, the searcher disagreed
on re-direct – and then a
doctor from the OCME, Terra
Cederroth.
In the case
before Judge
Liman,
Rodriguez
decided to go
pro se. On
July 31, 2025
his letter was
docketed
complaining of
lack of access
to discovery,
and saying he
didn’t know
the victim was
a cooperating
witness. On
September 30,
2025, that
trial was
pushed back to
March 30,
2026.
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