“On the run since October, this defendant is now in custody and facing very serious charges. The defendant is accused of participating in selling off millions of dollars’ worth of stolen merchandise taken from JFK Airport, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a statement. Our airports are supposed to be secure for both people and the goods imported into our region.
The Port Authority s chief security officer, John Bilich, applauded the multi-agency effort that brought Asencio into custody.
More than $800,000 in Prada merchandise was stolen in the first heist, prosecutors have said. The second heist was in May 2020. All but $2.5 millino worth of merchandise was sold, officials say.
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Additionally, the defense had made several specific requests for information suggesting the involvement of Speedstick gang members in the check cashing robbery and shootings, but the documents were not found in the defendants’ files and were only discovered by the CIU years later in the files of the unrelated prosecutions of alleged Speedstick members, according to the district attorney s office. However, the CIU concluded that the prosecutors assigned to men’s cases were unaware of these records at the time of their trial.
“These prosecutors did not intentionally mislead the Court, but we cannot ignore the fundamental unfairness in which key exculpatory evidence never came to light during the trial. The constitutional safeguards in our criminal justice system failed here, and the result has deprived everyone involved of the certainty and finality of justice in this case, CIU Director Bryce Benjet said.