United States v. Colon

RULING ON DEFENDANTS’ JOINT MOTIONS FOR DISCOVERY (Doc. #36) AND TO DISMISS THE INDICTMENT (Doc. # 37)

JEFFREY ALKER MEYER, District Judge.

This case involves seven criminal defendants who were set up by undercover law enforcement agents to rob a fictional drug “stash house” in Connecticut. They fell victim to a ruse that federal law enforcement agents have deployed with remarkable success against countless suspects nationwide. All seven defendants — some of them armed — gathered one day last April at a parking lot somewhere in Stamford, expecting that they would momentarily proceed to a nearby…