{"id":239313,"date":"2016-10-28T06:06:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T20:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=239313"},"modified":"2016-10-28T06:06:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T20:06:43","slug":"crystal-meth-now-sold-low-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/crystal-meth-now-sold-low-20\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Crystal meth now sold as low as $20\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that methamphetamine or \u201cice\u201d is now available on Saipan for as low as $20 to $30. <\/p>\n<p>CNMI Drug Enforcement Task Force arrested yesterday in Chalan Kanoa two brothers who were allegedly selling \u201cice\u201d for $20 to $30.<\/p>\n<p>Herman Raymond Reyes Angui, 47, and Larry Reyes Angui, 35, both jobless, were arrested on two counts of trafficking of a controlled substance, trafficking of a controlled substance within 1,000 feet of a public or private school, and illegal possession of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p>Their bail was set at $100,000 cash each; preliminary hearing will be on Nov. 1 at 1:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant public defender Cindy Nesbit was appointed as counsel for Herman Angui. The court will appoint a private counsel for Larry Angui. Assistant attorney general Betsy Weintraub appeared for the government.<\/p>\n<p>Task force officer Dee Liza S. Udui stated in her report that their \u201ccooperating source\u201d disclosed to them last Aug. 10 that a certain Ray and Larry are selling \u201cice\u201d in Chalan Kanoa. The \u201ccooperating source\u201d claimed that Ray and Larry would usually sell $40 worth of \u201cice\u201d to him\/her.<\/p>\n<p>Udui said they were able to identify Ray as Herman Raymond Angui and Larry as Larry Angui.<\/p>\n<p>Udi said their \u201ccooperating source\u201d managed to buy \u201cice\u201d from the defendants during separate controlled buy-walk operations at their residence in Chalan Kanoa last August and September. <\/p>\n<p>Udui said that during a controlled buy-walk operation, their \u201ccooperating source\u201d managed to purchase $20 worth of \u201cice\u201d from Herman Angui\u2014about 0.33 gross grams of \u201cice\u201d\u2014last Aug. 16. <\/p>\n<p>During the second operation, Udui said their \u201ccooperating source\u201d was able to buy $30 worth of \u201cice\u201d from Herman Angui\u2014about 0.37 gross grams of \u201cice\u201d\u2014last Aug. 26.<\/p>\n<p>The task force officer said that during their controlled buy-walk operation their \u201ccooperating source\u201d managed to purchase $30 worth of \u201cice\u201d from Larry Angui\u20140.36 gross grams of \u201cice\u201d\u2014last Aug. 18.<\/p>\n<p>Udui said in the second operation, their \u201ccooperating source\u201d was able to buy $30 worth of \u201cice\u201d from Larry Angui\u20140.40 gross grams of \u201cice\u201d\u2014last Sept. 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that methamphetamine or \u201cice\u201d is now available on Saipan for as low as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1351,14005,14006,14007],"class_list":["post-239313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-chalan-kanoa","tag-herman-angui","tag-larry-angui","tag-larry-reyes-angui"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239313","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}