{"id":28237,"date":"2014-02-21T16:22:29","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T08:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tribune.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=28237"},"modified":"2014-02-21T16:22:29","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T08:22:29","slug":"joint-federal-local-enforcers-arrest-7-persons-alleged-ice-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/joint-federal-local-enforcers-arrest-7-persons-alleged-ice-distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint federal, local enforcers arrest 7 persons for alleged \u201cice\u201d distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joint federal and local law enforcement teams arrested on Thursday seven persons who are allegedly engaged in distributing methamphetamine or \u201cice\u201d in the CNMI.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects were brought before U.S. District Court for the NMI Magistrate Judge Heather L. Kennedy today, Friday, for their initial appearance hearing. Kennedy unsealed the cases.<\/p>\n<p>Arrested were Daniel A. Castro, 32; Vicente S. Palacios, 38; Bao Zhong Wang, 46; Hong Wang, 40; Le Xiang Chen, 63; Xing Bo Fang, 46; and Yu Hua Wang, 46.<\/p>\n<p>According to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office, the suspects were arrested after a complaint and indictment were filed against them.<\/p>\n<p>The operation was conducted by agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Public Safety, and the CNMI Customs and Border Protection.<\/p>\n<p>More details to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joint federal and local law enforcement teams arrested on Thursday seven persons who are allegedly&#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":[26,93,257],"class_list":["post-28237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi","tag-district-court","tag-nmi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28237","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=28237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}