Overview
- Judge Valerie Caproni dismissed one attempted sex-trafficking count as time-barred but left the rest of the indictment intact.
- The court denied suppression of evidence seized from a Manhattan apartment, cloud storage, and a Facebook account.
- Caproni rejected the defense claim that the case is a local matter, citing alleged interstate and international movement of victims.
- Oren, Tal and Alon Alexander have pleaded not guilty, remain held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, and are due back in court on Nov. 24.
- Prosecutors say more than 60 women have reported assaults and several have filed civil suits, as the trial set for January could be postponed to May.