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Man gets 6 mos. in jail for ‘ice’ trafficking on Tinian
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Posted on Jul 01 2008
The federal court yesterday sentenced to six months in prison a man tagged by authorities as one of the suppliers of crystal methamphetamine or “ice” on Tinian.
U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Alex R. Munson imposed a sentence of six months’ imprisonment on Zhang Dong Guo for each of the three charges of distribution of a controlled substance.
Munson said the terms are to be served concurrently and that the 47-year-old Guo will be given credit for the time he has already served in jail. This means that the total jail term for the three charges is six months.
Munson said that at any time following yesterday’s sentencing, if Guo secures a return ticket to China and leaves the CNMI of his own volition, or if the CNMI Immigration officials were to deport him, the defendant will be deemed to have satisfied his term of imprisonment.
Upon release from prison, the defendant will be placed on three years of supervised release.
Under the supervised release, Guo will be required among other things, to perform 200 hours of community work and prohibited from drinking alcohol.
Munson ordered the defendant to pay a $300 special court assessment fee immediately.
The information charged Guo with three counts of distribution of a controlled substance. He and counsel Robert T. Torres signed a plea agreement with the government. Last March, the defendant pleaded guilty to all charges.
According to the plea agreement, Guo distributed 0.19 grams of “ice” on Jan. 9, 2008 and 0.22 grams and 0.19 grams of “ice” on Jan. 10, 2008. The total amount of grams distributed by Guo was .60 grams.
A Drug Enforcement Administration special agent stated in his report that on Jan. 9, 2008, detectives from the Department of Public Safety debriefed a confidential source about “ice” traffickers on Tinian.
The CS informed the agents on Jan. 9, 2008, that a certain Tony was distributing “ice” at the Pacific Laundry in San Jose, Tinian.
Authorities later identified Tony as defendant Guo.
