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Prosecutors highlighted “about $10,000 — $8,000 in U.S. dollars and then $2,000 in foreign currency that was found on his person,” CNN correspondent Danny Freeman said following the court hearing.
“Also they said that he had a Faraday bag,” which blocks cell signals, a move that prosecutors alleged marked “an indication of criminal sophistication and reason they should hold him on bail,” Freeman continued.
After prosecutors made the claims, Mangione said he would like to “correct two things.”
“I don’t know where any of that money came from — I’m not sure if it was planted. And also, that bag was waterproof, so I don’t know about criminal sophistication,” the suspect said in a statement that suggested police framed him.
How does “I’m not sure if it was planted” equate with suggesting evidence was planted? It feels like a linguistic stretch.
If he outright said it was planted, and then they could “prove” it wasn’t, that would reduce his plea options, I think
It’s his bag. If he put it in there, he’d know. If he doesn’t know where it came from, it was probably planted.
I thought they found his backpack in central park.