One of two suspected suppliers of methamphetamine or \u201cice\u201d could not able to move his left wrist as a result of the injuries he suffered when detectives arrested him last Dec. 5.<\/p>\n
This prompted chief public defender Adam Hardwicke to raise to the Superior Court last week the urgent need for defendant Yu Hua Wang to be given medical attention.<\/p>\n
Acting chief prosecutor Peter Prestley did not object.<\/p>\n
Presiding Judge Robert C. Naraja granted the request and ordered the Department of Corrections to immediately transport the 36-year-old Wang to the Commonwealth Health Center for medical attention.<\/p>\n
At the hearing, Naraja asked Wang, through an interpreter, to move his left wrist, and observed that he was unable to do so.<\/p>\n
When Naraja asked if he had received any medical attention from DOC, the defendant indicated that a nurse did not examine his hand\/wrist and that he was only given pain medication.<\/p>\n
Wang stated that he is unable to sleep and eat due to the severe pain in his injured wrist.<\/p>\n
The Office of the Attorney General has charged Wang and Jin Qing Chen each with two counts of trafficking of controlled substance, illegal possession of controlled substance, and resisting arrest.<\/p>\n
The defendants pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n
When the defendants were first taken to the court last Dec. 6, Judge Joseph James N. Camacho noted that Wang\u2019s co-defendant, Chen, had a bandage on the right side of face.<\/p>\n
A detective said Chen was tackled to the ground for resisting arrest.<\/p>\n
Chen, through an interpreter, told Judge Camacho that he would sue for police brutality.<\/p>\n
Camacho told Cheng he has a right to sue, but that he needs to hire a lawyer to do so as it would be a civil matter.<\/p>\n
Detective Dennis Reyes testified in that hearing how they were able to buy $200 and $400 worth of \u201cice\u201d from Chen and Wang using a confidential source in two operations.<\/p>\n
Reyes said that 4.45 gross grams of \u201cice\u201d worth $7,000 was involved as they also recovered more \u201cice\u201d from one of the suspects\u2019 cars.<\/p>\n
The detective said the suspects were uncooperative and resisted arrest when they tried to pull over their vehicles.<\/p>\n
Wang, also known as Old Man, was also arrested in March 2010 for allegedly engaging in trafficking \u201cice.\u201d<\/p>\n
The court subsequently dismissed the case after the government failed to give the results of the crime lab analysis to Wang and a co-defendant in that case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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