{"id":15212,"date":"2011-10-14T02:04:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T02:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=15212"},"modified":"2011-10-14T02:04:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T02:04:53","slug":"judge-orders-continued-detention-of-ex-convict-in-new-criminal-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/judge-orders-continued-detention-of-ex-convict-in-new-criminal-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge orders continued detention of ex-convict in new criminal case"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Ferdie de la Torre
\nReporter<\/div>\n

The federal court ordered yesterday the detention of an ex-convict who is facing a new criminal case for labor fraud conspiracy.<\/p>\n

U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona granted the U.S. government’s motion to detain Wei Lin and remanded him into the custody of the U.S. Marshal.<\/p>\n

Lin’s counsel, Joseph Norita Camacho, did not oppose assistant U.S. attorney Beverly McCallum’s motion. He said that since Lin, a Chinese national, is unemployed and had been convicted in the first case, he has no immigration status.<\/p>\n

With this lack of status, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has an immigration detainer on the defendant, Camacho added.<\/p>\n

Camacho’s co-counsel, Michael Norita Evangelista, told Saipan Tribune that being detained on a criminal case allows a person to obtain credit for time served.<\/p>\n

Being detained on an immigration detainer, on the other hand, does not allow him credit for time served as this is a civil case, Evangelista said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was better for Lin to remain at the Department of Corrections under a criminal case, that is why we did not oppose the detention,\u201d Evangelista said.<\/p>\n

The new indictment charged Lin with one count of foreign labor contracting fraud conspiracy, five counts of foreign labor contracting fraud, one count of alien smuggling conspiracy-encouraging, five counts of alien smuggling-encouraging, one count of alien smuggling conspiracy-harboring, and five counts of alien smuggling-harboring.<\/p>\n

Lin pleaded not guilty. The jury trial will be on Dec. 12, 2011.<\/p>\n

The new indictment accused Lin of acting with others in recruiting five Chinese nationals from China to the CNMI for employment based on false promises.<\/p>\n

The recruited Chinese nationals-four females and one male-were allegedly promised work visas after arriving on Saipan, salaries of over $1,000 per month, and employment as a waitress, cleaner, or taxi driver.<\/p>\n

In Lin’s first case-driver’s license fraud-he was sentenced last week to six months in prison but was subsequently freed after being given credit for the time he had already served in jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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