{"id":241296,"date":"2016-11-25T06:06:37","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T20:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=241296"},"modified":"2016-11-25T06:06:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T20:06:37","slug":"dps-chief-likens-drug-war-speeding-motorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/dps-chief-likens-drug-war-speeding-motorists\/","title":{"rendered":"DPS chief likens drug war to speeding motorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public Safety Commissioner Robert A. Guerrero likened their war on methamphetamine or \u201cice\u201d in the CNMI to speeding motorists. <\/p>\n<p>Guerrero said that whenever they arrest a bunch of \u201cice\u201d traffickers, everything slows down then would pick up again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has ups and downs,\u201d he added. \u201cIt\u2019s like speeding. You might have a radar, then we will find a way to get you and you will find another way to beat the system. So it\u2019s a revolving issue, I would say,\u201d the commissioner said. <\/p>\n<p>Guerrero said the \u201cice\u201d problem on Tinian is also being addressed. He said the CNMI Drug Enforcement Task Force not only concentrates on Saipan but is also monitoring Tinian and Rota.<\/p>\n<p>He said DPS directors on Tinian and Rota are working closely with the Drug Enforcement Administration and DETF.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything that pops up on that area, our unit goes down and checks on it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Guerrero appealed for people\u2019s help or the community\u2019s assistance in its strategy against drugs. He said they are more than willing to hear from the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Safety Commissioner Robert A. Guerrero likened their war on methamphetamine or \u201cice\u201d in the&#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":[26,11951,2815,67],"class_list":["post-241296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi","tag-detf","tag-drug-enforcement-administration","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241296","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=241296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}