| Man with Cocaine in Stew
Leonard Bag Cites Les Mis As Asks
for 10 Year Minimum
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
April 13 รข€“ A man arrested with
five kilos of cocaine in a
Stew Leonard's bag in his car
is up for sentencing on April
15. It carries a ten year
minimum, to which a Violation
of Supervised Release
sentencing, to be held in the
White Plains courthouse of the
U.S. District Court for the
Southern District of New York.
The
defense lawyer quotes his
client in the MDC that "I
can't believe how stupid I was
to jeopardize [what I had] to
try to make a quick buck." He
recounts that the defendant's
father "made the unimaginable
choice to shoot himself in
front of his son when he was
eight. The
memo ends with a comparison to
Jean Valjean in Les
Miserables, and that "a single
act of mercy can transform an
otherwise hardened or bitter
ex-criminal toward compassion,
sacrifice, and more renewal." The
sentencing will be by SDNY
Judge Edgardo Ramos, whose
proceedings from OneCoin to
Daniel Sikkema Inner City
Press often covers. The case is USA v. Salerno, 25-cr-486 (Ramos)
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Friday, April 17, 2026
Man with Cocaine in Stew Leonard Bag Cites Les Mis As Asks for 10 Year Minimum
