by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY WHITE PLAINS, June 29 – A man who served six months in prison for selling Xanax over the Dark Web was arrested and re-detained in Federal Court in Manhattan for selling Oxy with fentanyl for Bitcoin out of an Airbnb in Tuxedo Park, New York.
Kyle Weiland - not the professional baseball player by the same name - was presented on June 28 in 500 Pearl Street before U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Magistrate Judge Sarah L. Cave. Inner City Press was there, the only media in the SDNY Mag Court.
The Assistant US Attorney said Weiland has been under investigation since 2022 when a pill press was delivered to him. He left his listed location and flew to Texas where, she said, he got a domestic violence charge.
Now he was found with three luxury sports cars and $480,000 in cryptocurrency wallets - and, on June 28, a free Federal Defender after swearing to a financial affidavit that he is income eligible.
Judge Cave ordered him detained. He will next be seen on the VOSR by District Judge Lorna G. Schofield.
On June 30 the other shoe dropped: a complaint for the next case was filed in the SDNY White Plains courthouse, and signed by Magistrate Judge Judith C. McCarthy.
The complaint does not mention the sports cars but does cite industrial pill presses and that "the quantity of narcotics recovered from the Tuxedo Park Residence is consistent with narcotics distribution and not person narcotics use."
The VOSR case is US v. Weiland, 18-cr-273 (Schofield / Cave)
The new case, pre-indictment, is US v. Weiland, 7:23-mj-5224 (McCarthy)
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