‘French Connection’ Fugitive Hearing Set
A federal magistrate has set June 23 as the date for a hearing to confirm the identity of a 17-year fugitive accused of distributing heroin in Harlem for the once-famous French Connection drug ring.
U.S. Magistrate John Kronenberg set the hearing date for Stanton Garland, 60, who was arrested last month by U.S. marshals.
Federal deputy public defender Kerry Basinger said the hearing will require the presence of an official from the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn to formally identify Garland.
It was from that office that Garland escaped during questioning in 1972.
The case, which broke in 1962, became known as “the French Connection.” The 1971 movie based on the book about the affair won five Academy Awards.
Garland was arrested without incident May 31 by federal marshals who approached him in the parking lot of the Meadowbrook Neurological Center in Baldwin Hills, where he had visited his hospitalized son.
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