The Metropolitan Detention Middle, generally often known as MDC Brooklyn, is a federal detention facility in New York Metropolis that has housed among the world’s most high-profile felons.
From now ousted Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro to notorious criminals, the jail’s roster consists of many notable names.
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1. Nicolás Maduro And Cilia Flores
Maduro, 63, ousted and captured by an US army operation final week, is being held, alongside together with his spouse Cilia, 69, at New York’s Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn, the place he awaits federal proceedings on alleged narcotics and associated costs.
Two of Flores’ nephews had been imprisoned within the US in 2015, after they had been caught with 800 kg cocaine in Haiti, that they had been attempting to ship to the US, with monetary proceedings for use, allegedly, to prop up Flores’ election marketing campaign.
Their case was initially dealt with by then US legal professional for South Manhattan Preet Bharara. The nephews returned to Venezuela via a prisoner swap.
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2. Luigi Mangione
Baltimore-raised Luigi Nicholas Mangione stands accused within the deadly taking pictures of Brian Thompson, the chief govt of medical health insurance supplier large UnitedHealthcare.
Although a New York courtroom threw out the terrorism-linked homicide allegations towards Mangione, he continues to face prosecution for second-degree murder.
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3. Sean Combs
Sean John Combs or Puff Daddy or O Diddy, a outstanding determine in American music and leisure and one of many wealthiest musicians, was imprisoned on the MDC too.
He’s at the moment at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and the singer, who as soon as belted out strains like ‘Yo, that love’s gon’ get ya, m—–f—–, Smoke weed, listening to Sade, I left my ache in Paris, Why cannot you see s— my means?‘, works within the library of the jail chapel there.
On July 2, 2025, he was convicted on costs associated to interstate motion of people for prostitution. Afterward October 3, 2025, the courtroom handed him a jail time period of fifty months, accounting for a yr already spent in custody.
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4. R Kelly
Robert Sylvester Kelly, a preferred American R&B artist, noticed his profession collapse following a sequence of felony convictions for trafficking in youngster pornography.
Held initially on the Brooklyn jail, he was handed down a mixed jail time period of 31 years and moved to a jail in North Carolina.
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5. Sam Bankman-Fried
Known as the Crypto Poster Boy, Samuel Benjamin Bankman-Fried was discovered responsible of crypto foreign money fraud and related offences in November 2023. He’s nonetheless at MDC as he awaits the outcomes of his enchantment.
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6. Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán
The previous Mexican cartel boss, who as soon as lorded over the Sinaloa drug empire, was extradited to the US and held in a most safety space of the Brooklyn detention centre.
Lengthy thought to be the world’s strongest narcotics trafficker, he was allegedly answerable for the dying of over 34,000 individuals earlier than being handed over to US authorities. Condemned to spend the remainder of his life in jail, he’s at the moment at ADX Florence Colorado.
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7. Michael Cohen
Private counsel to Donald Trump for greater than a decade, from 2006 till 2018, in August that yr, he admitted guilt to eight felony offences, together with breaches of marketing campaign finance regulation, tax evasion and bank-related fraud.
He frolicked at MDC and was later transferred to the Otisville penitentionary in upstate New York. He served his sentence and was launched from Otisville in 2020 and home arrest in 2021.
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8. Ghislaine Noelle Marion Maxwell
The previous British social determine was sentenced for youngster intercourse trafficking and different offences referring to financier and convicted intercourse offender the late Jeffrey Epstein.
Initially a prisoner at MDC for round a yr, she is now at a Tallahassee jail and due for launch in mid-2037.
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9. Martin Shkreli
The New York financier, hedge fund founder and entrepreneur was at MDC until he was handed down a seven yr jail time period for fraud and conspiracy, together with fines totalling as much as $7.4 million, a dramatic fall from prominence for the as soon as high-profile businessman.
He was moved to a New Jersey jail and later a Pennsylvania jail and was launched in 2022, after serving his sentence.
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10. Al Charles Sharpton Jr
A outstanding US campaigner for civil rights and social equality, a Baptist clergyman, and a well known media determine, he’s recognised for his work in radio and tv. He additionally established the Nationwide Motion Community, a number one organisation devoted to racial justice and advocacy.
He spent 88 days on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in 2001 for trespassing when he was protesting towards the US army workout routines being carried out in Puerto Rico.
