Members of the Drug Enforcement Task Force arrested on Friday afternoon a suspected trafficker of methamphetamine or \u201cice\u201d after a sting operation in Susupe.<\/p>\n
Sunzhen Lu, 40, a jobless Chinese national, was arrested for one count of trafficking of a controlled substance and one count of illegal possession of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n
At yesterday\u2019s hearing, Superior Court associate judge Joseph N. Camacho imposed a $30,000 cash bail on Lu and set the preliminary hearing on Jan. 11, 2012, at 9am.<\/p>\n
Camacho found Lu indigent and appointed the Office of the Public Defender to serve as counsel for the defendant. Assistant public defender Douglas Hartig appeared in court. Acting chief prosecutor Peter Prestley represented the government.<\/p>\n
Detective Steven A. Castro stated in his report that members of the Drug Enforcement Task Force and detectives of the Department of Public Safety arranged the buy-bust operation against Lu on Friday. The suspect is also known as Brada or Wei.<\/p>\n
Castro said the officers used a \u201ccooperating defendant\u201d to purchase $300 worth of \u201cice\u201d from Lu in front of a hardware store in Susupe at 1:39pm.<\/p>\n
After Lu handed the \u201cice\u201d to the \u201ccooperating defendant,\u201d a marked police vehicle following by a surveillance team stopped Lu\u2019s vehicle near Mt. Carmel Church in Chalan Kanoa. The officers arrested Lu, who allegedly yielded a ziplock baggie in his jeans.<\/p>\n
Detective Castro said the two baggies containing 0.6 gross grams of substance that were procured by the \u201ccooperating defendant\u201d from Lu tested positive for the presence of methamphetamine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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