Already incarcerated Ronald Washington, 56, has requested to be released from his Kentucky federal prision, using the compassionate Covid-19 release.
Washington was already in federal jail on robbery charges for a string of 2002 stickups in Queens near the studio where JMJ was murdered. However, the feds deemed Washington as a suspect in the JMJ killing in 2007 during his trial on unrelated robbery charges, but they never charged him in the murder until this week.
On July 7, 2020, Washington requested a sentence reduction or immediate home confinement in the robbery case considering he was set to be released in the robbery case in June 2022.
Assistant US Attorney Andrew Wang says, “The crimes for which the defendant has already been convicted were undeniably serious; he terrorized multiple innocent victims during a string of armed robberies in Queens and Long Island. The nature and extent of those crimes are reason enough to deny the defendant’s motion,” while opposing Washington’s release from federal custody. Wang added, “The court recently entered a permanent order of detention in connection with these new charges,”
While Washington suffers from hypertension and hepatitis C, prosecutors said that does not amount to extraordinary conditions that necessitate his release.
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