Members of the CNMI Drug Enforcement Task Force and Drug Enforcement Administration Saipan Post of Duty arrested on Wednesday afternoon two persons who allegedly sell methamphetamine or \u201cice\u201d on Saipan. <\/p>\n
Officers served an arrest warrant on Joleen Camacho Castro, 35, in Sadog Tasi, and on Liu Zhia Shan, 51, also known as Papa, in Chalan Kanoa, for alleged trafficking of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n
Their bail was retained at $100,000 cash each.<\/p>\n
Superior Court Associate Judge Kenneth L. Govendo appointed assistant public defender Tillman Clark as counsel for Castro and Shan. Assistant attorney general Heather Barcinas appeared for the government.<\/p>\n
Preliminary hearing for Castro will be on Nov. 25 at 9am, while for Shan will be on Nov.22 at 1:30pm.<\/p>\n
In Castro\u2019s case, police officer Nicholas Aldan Rabauliman stated in his report that a cooperating defendant managed to buy \u201cice\u201d from Castro during a \u201cbuy-walk operation\u201d in the parking lot of a hotel in Sadog Tasi in the afternoon of Sept. 27.<\/p>\n
In Shan\u2019s case, police officer Roque K. Camacho stated in his report that they received information in the past about a Chinese national who has been selling \u201cice\u201d at a poker room in Chalan Kanoa and in that village. <\/p>\n
Camacho said a confidential source disclosed that a Chinese national known as Papa, later identified as Shan, once approached him\/her and asked if he\/she wants to buy \u201cice.\u201d Papa then allegedly provided him\/her his cell phone number.<\/p>\n
The cooperating source then volunteered to assist the task force and other law enforcement in looking into Papa\u2019s drug activities.<\/p>\n
Camacho said a cooperating defendant was able to buy $230 worth of \u201cice\u201d from Shan during a \u201cbuy-walk\u201d operation in the afternoon of April 1.<\/p>\n
Camacho said the cooperating defendant first met Shan outside a poker arcade in Chalan Kanoa, then the two proceeded to a parking lot of a store in Chalan Kanoa.<\/p>\n
Rabauliman and Camacho said the test of the seized drugs in the two cases were both presumptive positive for methamphetamine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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