{"id":252325,"date":"2017-05-16T06:06:22","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T20:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=252325"},"modified":"2017-05-16T06:06:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T20:06:22","slug":"suspected-main-supplier-ice-saipan-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/suspected-main-supplier-ice-saipan-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected main supplier of \u2018ice\u2019 on Saipan arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNMI Drug Enforcement Task Force arrested in Gualo Rai on Friday afternoon a suspected supplier of methamphetamine on Saipan. <\/p>\n<p>Xinqiang Zheng, 24, also known as Shawn, was taken before Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho yesterday for bail hearing on charges of trafficking and possession of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p>Camacho imposed a $200,000 cash bail.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant public defender Tillman Clark was appointed as counsel for Zheng. Assistant attorney general Jonathan Wilbersheild appeared for the government.<\/p>\n<p>Police said a cooperating defendant had disclosed that a Chinese man known as Shawn is known to be one of the main suppliers of \u201cice\u201d on the island. During a \u201cbuy-walk operation\u201d last April 12, the cooperating defendant allegedly managed to buy $750 worth of \u201cice\u201d from Zheng, who used an associate to hand over the drugs.<\/p>\n<p>During a second \u201cbuy-walk operation\u201d last April 25, the cooperating defendant was able to purchase \u201cice\u201d worth $1,250 from Zheng.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNMI Drug Enforcement Task Force arrested in Gualo Rai on Friday afternoon a suspected supplier&#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":[197,16176,6120,16812],"class_list":["post-252325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-gualo-rai","tag-jonathan-wilbersheild","tag-tillman-clark","tag-xinqiang-zheng"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252325","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=252325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}