by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, June 17 – Friday morning saw "the arrest of JUSTIN HEATH SMITH, an adult film actor who uses the stage name 'Austin Wolf.' SMITH is charged with sending and receiving hundreds of videos of child pornography via the Telegram application. Those videos depicted children as young as infants, including a video showing a 10-year-old child bound and raped. SMITH will be presented later today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Robyn F. Tarnofsky in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York."
Inner City Press was there. Smith was ordered detained; then requested that a slew of medicine in MDC-Brooklyn. His lawyer was told that the medicine cannot be taken in. The law clerks diligently jotted down the names of the medicine.
Jump cut to June 17, 2025 when after a series of continuance in the interest of justice a change of plea was scheduled for June 18 - then pushed to June 20. Defense counsel wrote that Smith "intends to plead guilty to a mandatory minimum charge." Now it's June 20 at 11:45 am.
The case is US v. Smith, 24-mj-2422 (Engelemayer)
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