Manhattan prosecutors are said to have detailed a horrifying crime that was allegedly committed by a fentanyl-wearing crew several years ago.
In her final discussion on Friday, Assistant District Attorney Meghan Hast drugged five men in 2022, with Jacob Baroso defendants Jake Wang Hamilton, Robert DeMaio and Jacob Baroso He walked through the Ju judge through an avalanche of evidence authorities who had taken five men.
Two of their suspects died during the ordeal, but it often began with the drunk young man approaching Hell's Kitchen to a drunk young man leaving a gay nightclub.
On Thursday, defense attorneys confirmed that the client could actually be a criminal, but they argued that they were not murderers, and prosecutors proved that the man was the one who gave the man drugs. He added that he hasn't done so.
However, Hast hit it on Friday, saying that fentanyl was “the best weapon to commit a robbery.”
“Did these men just happen to people who took fentanyl on five different occasions?” she asked the ju umpire.
“This is all coincidence and the idea that they simply benefit from it — that they are convicted of petit theft is the definition of a quirky theory.”
During the trial, prosecutors said the suspect (part of a large robbery gang) killed 33-year-old political consultant John Umberger and 25-year-old Brooklyn social worker Julio Ramirez . .
But both victims died of “acute poisoning” from a mixture of fentanyl, cocaine, ethanol and other drugs, a city medical examiner said last March.
All three face murder charges, allegedly killing Ramirez. Meanwhile, Hamilton, 37, and Demaio, 36, are also charged with Amberger's death.
The suspect's drugs began on March 18, 2022, when a man robbed and robbed a man named Alex in Hyatt Union Square, prosecutors said.
Hust shows ju-described surveillance photos of Hamilton and another co-conspirator Andre Butts, and they went to the hotel luggage trolley before DeMaio robbing him in his hotel room as he waited in the getaway car. Como-slept victims pushed.
“They move him to his room, peel his eyes to unlock his phone, then die and settle out of the hotel before escaping in the getaway car. It was,” Hass said.
“Hamilton and Butts purposefully gave him neutralisation of fentanyl and take it,” she added. “This was not a minor theft. It was a violent robbery and robbery.”
They reportedly robbed another man named Max the following month outside the Q Nightclub in Midtown and later in a Brooklyn apartment.
“Cocaine had a powerful opioid that acted quickly, but it had the desired effect,” she said.
“Maxwell doesn't remember anything after he returned to the apartment with the man he met in Q.”
A few weeks later, on April 21, 32-year-old Hamilton and Baroso approached Giulio Ramirez outside a Ritzbar in Manhattan, talking to him and loading him into a taxi.
By that point, Ramirez had fentanyl, heroin, and the powerful synthetic opioid P-fluorofentanyl in his system, but he said he was drinking before the accused handed him a deadly chemical cocktail. in spite of.
“Gulio was given cocaine mixed with fentanyl and within 15 minutes he had respiratory failure,” she told the court, saying that otherwise Ramirez was a “healthy 25-year-old man.” Ta.
The defendant was reportedly called, ran out of bank accounts and took off when Ramirez died. They then went wild shopping at Prada, capsules and Sneaker Palace with the money of the victims.
“Even if you think [Ramirez] Having made the bad decision to stay until 3am on a work night, he was taken medicine with fentanyl, stripped of his belongings, and didn't deserve to die behind a taxi in New York. ”
They allegedly robbed another man named Gerald just three weeks later.
Two weeks later, on May 28, Hamilton and Demaio approached Umberger outside Q NYC and returned to the townhouse with him around 6am.
A few minutes later, Umberger was handed over in his bed. And when Hamilton and Demaio tore him apart, she added.
“[They] When I hit the jackpot, they didn't intend to ruin it,” Hass told the court. “They were a little old and were crazy about very successful gays. John obviously had money and they needed time to transfer those funds.”
In addition to murder charges, the trio was hit with an assortment of robbery, robbery, conspiracy and theft charges against alleged crimes.
The ju judge began deliberation after winding up her long total.
It is unclear when they will make a verdict.
