{"id":260460,"date":"2017-09-18T06:06:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-17T20:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=260460"},"modified":"2017-09-18T06:06:57","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T20:06:57","slug":"cook-pleads-guilty-ice-possession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cook-pleads-guilty-ice-possession\/","title":{"rendered":"Cook pleads guilty to \u2018ice\u2019 possession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A restaurant cook who was arrested by CNMI Drug Enforcement Task Force officers last June for allegedly selling methamphetamine or \u201cice\u201d in Garapan has pleaded guilty to illegal possession.<\/p>\n<p>Joselito Pineda Sioco, 47, also known as Jojo, pleaded guilty last week as part of a plea deal with the government. He will be sentenced on Nov. 15, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant public defender Shoshanah D. Epstein is counsel for Sioco. Assistant attorney general Jonathan Glass is counsel for the government.<\/p>\n<p>According to the plea deal, Sioco was found in possession of .8 gross grams of meth on April 4, 2017. <\/p>\n<p>Task force officer George Fleming David stated in his report that they investigated last March 27 the drug activities in Garapan involving Sioco.<\/p>\n<p>David said their \u201ccooperating source\u201d managed to buy $170 worth of 0.8 gross grams of \u201cice\u201d from Sioco during a \u201cbuy-walk\u201d operation at his barracks in Garapan last April 4.<\/p>\n<p>David said their \u201ccooperating source\u201d was able to purchase $170 worth of 0.8 gross grams of \u201cice\u201d from Sioco during the second \u201cbuy-walk\u201d operation at his barracks last April 5. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A restaurant cook who was arrested by CNMI Drug Enforcement Task Force officers last June&#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":[13856,18343,17300],"class_list":["post-260460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-george-fleming-david","tag-jonathan-glass","tag-joselito-pineda-sioco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260460","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=260460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}