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Teacher aide faces drug trafficking charges
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Posted on Apr 14 2005
A public school teacher aide is facing drug trafficking charges at the Superior Court.
The Attorney General’s Office has filed two charges of possession and trafficking methamphetamine hydrochloride or “ice” against Rosalynne P. Aldan, a 28-year-old teacher aid at the Dandan Elementary School.
The teacher aide, however, denied the charges by entering a “not guilty” plea during her arraignment in court last Monday.
The PSS could not confirm yesterday if administrative sanctions have already been imposed on Aldan. The Public School System implements a drug-free policy for its employees.
Government prosecutors recently asked the court to unseal the case against Aldan and revoke her “release on own recognizance” without bail.
Following her arrest on June 24, 2004 at the San Vicente Elementary School, Aldan vowed to help law enforcers in the illegal drug campaign by acting as confidential informant in exchange for sealing the case and her ROR release.
Recently, though, assistant attorney general John Eaton asked the court to revoke Aldan’s ROR, saying that the teacher aide has not been cooperating with law enforcers in ongoing investigations.
CNMI chief prosecutor David Hutton had sought an arrest warrant against the teacher aide sometime last year, saying that Aldan sold less than a gram of ice on June 8. The following day, operatives set up a sting operations, during which Aldan allegedly sold to an undercover agent less than a gram of ice.
Aldan had posted a property bond for her pre-trial release. The court ordered her to reside with her mother, Maria Brown.
