{"id":249751,"date":"2017-04-07T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=249751"},"modified":"2017-04-07T06:00:31","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T20:00:31","slug":"drug-dealer-pleads-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/drug-dealer-pleads-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug dealer pleads guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A suspected distributor of illegal drugs pleaded guilty on Tuesday to illegal possession of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p>Jialiang Chen will be sentenced on Oct. 24, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The offense carries a maximum sentence of five years imprisonment and a $2,000 fine.<\/p>\n<p>Chen was found in possession of 1.6 gross grams of crystal methamphetamine on Nov. 15, 2016 on Saipan. Assistant public defender Nancy Dominski served as his counsel.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant attorney general Chester Hinds prosecuted the case.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the CNMI Drug Enforcement Task Force and Drug Enforcement Administration arrested the 25-year-old Chen, also known as Brother, last Nov. 15.<\/p>\n<p>The task force had been monitoring Chen\u2019s drug activities on the island. A cooperating defendant managed to buy $120 worth of \u201cice\u201d from Chen in a parking lot of an establishment in Chalan Laulau on Oct. 21, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The same cooperating defendant was able to buy $240 worth of \u201cice\u201d from Chen at the same place on Nov. 15, 2016. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A suspected distributor of illegal drugs pleaded guilty on Tuesday to illegal possession of a&#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":[2970,2815,14292,14555],"class_list":["post-249751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-chalan-laulau","tag-drug-enforcement-administration","tag-jialiang-chen","tag-nancy-dominski"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249751","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=249751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}