"The deposed Venezuelan president and Flores will almost certainly reside in Metropolitan detention center (MDC) until their federal trial on drugs and weapons charge inducting them into a notorious group that counts Sean Diddy Combs, Ghislaine Maxwell, Sam Bankman-Fried, and Mexican drug kingpin El Chapo as either current or previous members. The facility, located in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, holds prisoners with pending cases in the United States district court for the eastern district of New York as well as those serving brief sentences."
"Luigi Mangione, who faces federal and state charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is presently jailed there. Other widely known inmates have included Trap Queen singer Fetty Wap, Rev Al Sharpton (who served a 90-day sentence in 2001), disgraced R&B star R Kelly, Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli, and Nxivm sex cult leader Keith Raniere and member Allison Mack."
"Defense lawyers representing both famous and lower-profile detainees alike have repeatedly complained that conditions at MDC are unsafe and inhumane. Following Combs's arrest on sex-trafficking charges in September 2024, for example, the fallen hip-hop mogul's lawyers Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos cited violence at MDC in making their pitch for bail. The attorneys said in a letter that an inmate was killed at MDC in summer 2024 and noted that a minimum of four detainees died by suicide there in the"
United States military forces seized Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in a pre-dawn raid in Caracas and transported them to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. The couple will likely remain at MDC until their federal trial on drug and weapons charges. MDC houses inmates with pending cases in the Eastern District of New York and those serving short sentences. The facility has held numerous high-profile detainees. Defense lawyers have repeatedly complained about unsafe and inhumane conditions, citing violence, a reported inmate killing in summer 2024, and multiple suicides.
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