{"id":263271,"date":"2017-10-27T06:06:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T20:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=263271"},"modified":"2017-10-27T06:06:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T20:06:55","slug":"2-arrested-ice-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/2-arrested-ice-case\/","title":{"rendered":"2 arrested in \u2018ice\u2019 case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman suspected as one of the main sources of methamphetamine or \u201cice\u201d on Saipan and her alleged associate were arrested last Wednesday in Chalan Kanoa.<\/p>\n<p>Karina Aldan Castro, 44, and Dave Angui, 57, were arrested for trafficking and possession of a controlled substance, and conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>The two were arrested by members of the CNMI Drug Enforcement Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>A $100,000 cash bail was each imposed on Castro and Angui; preliminary hearing is on Nov. 1 at 9am.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant attorney general Chester Hinds appeared for the government. Assistant public defender Cindy Nesbit served as counsel for Castro, while a private counsel will be appointed for Angui.<\/p>\n<p>According to police officer Jeffrey I. Norita, a cooperating source of the task force managed to purchase \u201cice\u201d from Castro and Angui at Castro\u2019s residence on Elphidia Street in Chalan Kanoa during \u201cbuy-walk\u201d operations last Sept. 13 and 19.<\/p>\n<p>In his report, Norita said their cooperating source was able to buy $200 worth of 0.7 gross grams of \u201cice\u201d during the first operation and $400 worth of 1.2 gross grams of \u201cice\u201d in the second operation. <\/p>\n<p>The bail hearing yesterday was presided by Superior Court Associate Judge Kenneth L. Govendo. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman suspected as one of the main sources of methamphetamine or \u201cice\u201d on Saipan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[1351,4710,18848,18849],"class_list":["post-263271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","tag-chalan-kanoa","tag-cindy-nesbit","tag-dave-angui","tag-karina-aldan-castro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263271","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=263271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}