by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Oct 23 – The day before U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York US Attorney Damian Williams leaves the office, DOJ announced that MAXIMILIANO DAVILA-PEREZ, a/k/a “Macho,” was extradited from Bolivia and arrived in the U.S. this morning to face federal charges for conspiring to import cocaine into the U.S. and conspiring to use and possess machineguns in connection with this cocaine importation conspiracy. DAVILA-PEREZ will make his initial appearance this afternoon before the Honorable Robyn F. Tarnofsky.
Inner City Press went, and as the only media in the SDNY Mag court, live tweeted. Thread
On December 18, he appeared (in Essex yellow) before District Judge Denise L. Cote, thread
On August 22 the US Attorney's Office wrote in asking on co-defendant Serrate Middagh for 108 months on August 29.
Inner City Press went to the sentencing and live tweeted. The defendant sobbed, and said his daughter was in the hall, he was too embarassed to have her come in. Then he was sentenced to 108 months.
On September 30 before the upcoming final pre-trial conference the US wrote it it plans to call CW-2 who was told by Cahuana that the defendant told him that "if the incumbent party in the then-upcoming Bolivian elections lost, the new party would likely work with the US against drug traffickers who had been protected by the ruling party in the past."
On October 9, in the run up to a final final pre trial conference, the US Attorney's Office sent in a heavily redacted letter including that "public disclosure of the name of Application-1 could risk jeopardizing ongoing investigations."
On October 14, Judge Cote began and completed jury selection; opening arguments were delivered and a government witness about the app took the stand. Defense counsel asked if the commercial version of the app doesn't do GPS.
The jury found him guilty: The deliberating jurors returned a verdict of guilty on both counts. Sentence is set for January 22, 2026. Defense submissions are due January 9. Government submissions are due January 16. Detention continued.
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The case is USA v. Vasquez-Drew, et al., 1:19-cr-91 (Cote)
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