Man Charged with Armed Drug
Dealing on Bronx Blocked Ordered
Released Not to Block

by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack

SDNY

COURTHOUSE,
Aug 7 – A man charged with
armed drug dealing had a bail
fight on August 7 in the U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrates Court. Inner City
Press was there, the only
media in the SDNY Mag court,
and live tweeted:

AUSA: We found
the bag with crack, the gun,
his DNA on the gun, and $732
in various denominations. He
fled from law enforcement
twice. During yesterday’s
arrest he said he would have
fled, “I’m going to make you
work for it.” Federal
Defender: No warrants

AUSA: He proposes
to live in a place with a
woman who tried to help him by
secreting his drugs in her
pants. Federal Defender: NYS
released him. He enrolled in
the Fortune Society. 
Judge: What is that? FD: An
alternative to incarceration
program

Federal Defense:
He works at the uncle’s food
truck, they set up the tent
and serve. He’s also worked in
Hunts Point. Yes he was
arrested in February in the
car with the drugs, they’re
saying the woman tried to hide
the drugs but she was not
charged.

 Judge: One
of the charges was for
resisting arrest Federal
Defender: That’s a misdemeanor
in the NYS system Judge: The
state system does not have the
authority to detain someone
based on danger, so I don’t
consider what they did, you’re
wasting your breath

Judge: What if we
keep him off the block he was
dealing drugs on? FD: I think
it’s about one train stop
away. Judge: Give me a moment

[steps out, returns] I believe
I can release him

Judge: $100,000
unsecured bond, no guns, not
to be on the block where the
alleged drug dealing took
place – Westchester between
Beach and Lawrence Streets in
The Bronx – not released where
listed. Conditions to be met
before he is released

The case is USA
v. Washington, 1:26-mj-3201
(Gary Stein)

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