United States v. Rivera-Fuentes

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

BESOSA, District Judge.

Before the Court are defendants Orlando Rivera-Fuentes’, Ernesto Martinez-Gonzalez’s, Carlos Camacho-Santiago’s, and Helvis Ortizr-Rivera’s motions to dismiss the indictment for violations of the Speedy Trial Act (“STA”) and the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (Docket Nos. 1071, 1074, 1082 & 1085),1 and the United States’s response (Docket No. 1084). For the reasons that follow, the Court DENIES defendants’ motions.

I. Background

Defendants and sixteen other defendants were indicted in a two-count drug trafficking conspiracy on May 24, 2012;…