{"id":252643,"date":"2017-05-19T06:06:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T20:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=252643"},"modified":"2017-05-19T06:06:13","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T20:06:13","slug":"man-gets-15-mos-prison-sentence-selling-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/man-gets-15-mos-prison-sentence-selling-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Man gets 15 mos. prison sentence for selling drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man who pleaded guilty of selling methamphetamine or \u201cice\u201d was slapped with a 15-month prison sentence in federal court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Yang Kang Chen was given credit for time served.<\/p>\n<p>Chen has been in detention for five months and four days.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona approved Chen\u2019s request to serve the rest of his prison term at the CNMI Department of Corrections.<\/p>\n<p>After his release from prison, Chen, a Chinese national, will be deported.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Petersburg appeared on behalf of Chen. <\/p>\n<p>MD: A man who pleaded guilty for selling of methamphetamine or \u201cice\u201d is slapped with a 15-month prison sentence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who pleaded guilty of selling methamphetamine or \u201cice\u201d was slapped with a 15-month&#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":[6831,93,410,14737],"class_list":["post-252643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-benjamin-petersburg","tag-district-court","tag-drugs","tag-yang-kang-chen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252643","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=252643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}