Federal prosecutors have filed a legal memo opposing the bid for freedom on bond pending trial by Jarrin Young, one of the remaining co-defendants of former Honolulu business owner and alleged racketeering boss Michael John Miske, Jr.

In the 17-page memo, filed in Honolulu’s Federal District Court last week, is a sharp response to Young’s attorney, who took over the case just a couple of months ago, and argued that there is “no evidence” to support his client’s continued detention.

“These arguments have no merit,” the government’s response argues.

The government memo reviews Young’s prior convictions for 2nd degree robbery and three counts of 1st degree terroristic threatening, and his history of drug use, reporting that “Young had a history of marijuana, methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin use, and that he attended outpatient treatment with Care Hawaii in 2020 but was unsuccessfully discharged due to a probation violation.”

Prosecutors return several times to repeatedly refute the notion that there is “no evidence” to support continued detention until the trial of Miske and his associates, now scheduled for April 2023.

…the weight of the evidence does strongly weigh in favor of detention. YOUNG was intercepted on Title III wiretaps engaging in drug trafficking activity and even conspiring to commit a robbery. Those interceptions provide strong corroboration of the testimony of expected cooperating witnesses, who will explain that YOUNG distributed drugs and participated in robberies with other associates of the Miske Enterprise. And while YOUNG suggests in his Motion that there is only “vague” evidence tying him to firearms, Mot. at 10, the Court need look no further than his own prior state convictions, which include (1) a robbery conviction that stemmed from a September 12, 2016, robbery in which YOUNG, Co-defendant Lance Bermudez, and one or more other individuals committed a gunpoint robbery during which they took, among other things, an iPhone and miscellaneous clothing in a duffel bag; and (2) terroristic threatening convictions that resulted from a July 4, 2017, incident in which YOUNG pointed a handgun at a victim.

Also see: “Another Miske co-defendant wants out of detention“, iLind.net, 8/13/2022.

You can read the government’s memo below.

US Memo in opposition to Jarrin Young's motion to reconsider release pending trial by Ian Lind on Scribd