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The Case of Danny Rincon
📻 Episode #181
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jan 20, 2021
About This Episode
In the late 80’s and early 90’s, the Sepulveda’s Red Top crew ran the crack game in the South Bronx. When the Yellow Top crew tried to open up shop in an alleyway on Beekman Avenue, Nelson Sepulveda and 3 enforcers sprayed the alleyway with bullets on December 16th, 1991, killing 4 and wounding 1.…
The Case
In the late 80’s and early 90’s, the Sepulveda’s Red Top crew ran the crack game in the South Bronx. When the Yellow Top crew tried to open up shop in an alleyway on Beekman Avenue, Nelson Sepulveda and 3 enforcers sprayed the alleyway with bullets on December 16th, 1991, killing 4 and wounding 1. Danny Rincon, who was with the Orange Top crew, had his whereabouts accounted for, but that didn’t seem to matter to Detective Mark Tebbens.
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https://www.exonerationinitiative.org/
https://wrongfullyconvicted.info/danny-rincon-incarcerated/
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00:05:45“Speaker 3: drug war so to speak, that was going on between Speaker 3: these three organizations. Speaker 1: This was not some small time drug dealing. I mean Speaker 1: they were making between ten and twenty million dollars a Speaker 1: year just the Red Top Gang itself, right.”
00:20:47“Speaker 5: decise logic, So. Speaker 4: There was really a clear divide between Redtop and Orange Top. Speaker 4: But the prosecution just blew through that because they needed Speaker 4: to join them for their case. Speaker 1: So you end up a trial and how did that”
00:36:16“Speaker 1: And how can people get involved? Speaker 4: First of all, they can write letters to the Manhattan Speaker 4: District Attorney's office to say vance Junior and ask that Speaker 4: they'd be sent to the Integrity Unit and that they Speaker 4: reevaluate the case. We went to the integraty Unit, by”
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