Antonio Tillmon's arraignment, originally scheduled Tuesday along with nine other Operation Rockfish defendants, has been rescheduled for May 10.
An order file by Senior United States District Court Judge Malcolm Howard explains, based on the court's own motion, it continued arraignment and the deadline for filing pre-trial motions in the case. The deadline for filing pre-trial motions was extended to Tuesday, according to electronic records filed in the case.
Howard also dismissed, and found as moot, a motion which sought to remove a protective order in the case.
“The court finds the ends of justice served by granting this continuance outweigh the best interests of the public and the defendant in a speedy trial,” Howard wrote in the order. “Any delay caused by this continuance order shall be excluded from speedy computation ...”
Nine other defendants in the case Tuesday — Lann Clanton, Ikeisha Jacobs, Jason Boone, Curtis Boone, Adrienne Moody, Jimmy Pair Jr., Alphonso Ponton, Corey Jackson and Thomas Allen II — pled guilty.
Fourteen of the so-called Rockfish 15 have now pled guilty in the police corruption case.