By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
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SDNY MAG COURT EXCLUSIVE, August 11 - In the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on August 8, a detention or release proceeding was held by Magistrate Judge Robert W. Lehrburger on a defendant, Cesar Vasquez Jordan, charged with trying to sell over 50 weapons, including AK-47s, from Ohio into The Bronx. Inner City Press was there.
Vasquez Jordan is only 19 years old. His Federal Defender asked that he be released to his mother in Columbus, Ohio.
Judge Lehrburger said he didn't know enough about the mother and the home environment. The Federal Defender offered to arrange a Zoom conference on Friday, the last day of Judge Lehrburger's week presiding in the Magistrates Court.
Judge Lehrburger said he would listen to anything, but that Federal Defenders might want to take up to a week to prepare. Vasquez Jordan was remanded into detention
Inner City Press, the only media in the SDNY Magistrates Court, will have more on this exclusive.
The case is US v. Vasquez Jordan, 22-mj-6420 (Lehrburger)
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