{"id":159324,"date":"2012-03-01T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/be66979e-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2012-03-01T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T19:20:00","slug":"be6697ae-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/be6697ae-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Bench warrant issued vs suspected \u2018ice\u2019 trafficker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Superior Court associate judge Joseph N. Camacho issued yesterday a bench warrant for the arrest of a suspected \u201cice\u201d trafficker who failed to appear at a change of plea hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Camacho granted assistant attorney general Nicole Driscoll\u2019s verbal request for the issuance of a bench warrant in the amount of $2,000 for Lian Jun Li.<\/p>\n<p>Li\u2019s counsel, assistant public defender Daniel Guidotti, told the court that they could not contact the defendant as well as his third-party custodian.<\/p>\n<p>In the government\u2019s declaration in support of plea agreement, Driscoll said the defendant was charged with a series of trafficking and possession crimes resulting from three separate controlled buys in Nov. 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile serious, this was the defendant\u2019s first arrest in the CNMI, and the total amount of the crystal methamphetamine at issue, 2.3 gross grams, was fairly low,\u201d Driscoll said.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor said the negotiated plea agreement is consistent with other agreements accepted by the court for similar first time drug trafficking offenses.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Attorney General had charged the 48-year-old Li with three counts of trafficking of a controlled substance, and three counts of illegal possession of a controlled substance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superior Court associate judge Joseph N. Camacho issued yesterday a bench warrant for the arrest of a suspected \u201cice\u201d trafficker who failed to appear at a change of plea hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}