Navarro’s Conviction Documents
Via Bill Finley
Juice Man has a new home.
After being adjourned for 30 days from the start of the sentence Because he was about to have eye surgery, disgraced former coach Jorge Navarro began serving his sentence at FCI Miami, a low-security federal correctional facility in Miami. Navarro began serving his sentence on Thursday.
In December, Navarro was sentenced to five years in prison of Judge Mary Kay Vsykocil of the United States Southern District Court for the Southern District of New York after he was found guilty of one count of conspiracy to adulterate drugs or mislabelling. Navarro has also been ordered to pay $25.8 million in compensation to the owner, trainer and fisherman he beat from 2016 until his arrest in March 2020.
Things could have been worse for Navarro. He is not a US citizen, which has led his attorney Jason Kreiss to speculate that he may be sent to a prison under the control of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (USCIS). ICE), a fate worse than being sentenced to a minimum security federal prison. Before going to prison, Navarro lived with his family in Ocala, and Kreiss managed to incarcerate him at a facility near his home.
Navarro is one of 754 inmates at the main prison. The FCI facility also includes a satellite camp with 201 prisoners.
Navarro’s new uniform will be khaki trousers and a shirt with institutional-issued boots or approved medical shoes. He will also be assigned a job detail, be it working in the laundromat, in charge, in the kitchen or as a landscaper. Wages for those jobs ranged from 12 cents an hour to 40 cents an hour. He will receive three meals a day, starting with breakfast at 6:10 am. Dinner starts at 5:15pm.
FCI Miami opened in 1976 as a youth crime center and was built along the campus. The campus includes a lake in the middle of the building. In 2000, the prison was renamed FCI Miami.
Its most famous prisoner was former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega, who was convicted of drug trafficking, fraud and money laundering. After 20 years at FCI Miami, he was extradited to France.
According to the website whitecollaradvice.com, more than half of the prison population is Hispanic, and many are from Puerto Rico. Navarro is from Panama.
In a 2020 article that appeared in the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, the newspaper wrote about contraband being a growing problem. Fifty banned cell phones were found during an investigation.
“FCI Miami is located on a patch of dense Pine Rockland shared with the Miami Zoo and a small US Army base,” the article reads. “The establishment has hosted fame and notoriety. Ponzi schemer Peter Madoff, Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega and Jamaican reggae legend Buju Banton called it home.
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