{"id":29507,"date":"2014-03-10T16:35:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T08:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tribune.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=29507"},"modified":"2014-03-10T16:35:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T08:35:21","slug":"suspected-ice-distributor-pleads-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/suspected-ice-distributor-pleads-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected \u2018ice\u2019 distributor pleads guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yuan Rong Zhao, a 41-year-old man arrested in January by Drug Enforcement Administration agents for allegedly distributing $400 worth of methamphetamine or \u201cice\u201d on Saipan, has pleaded guilty in federal court.<br \/>\nZhao, who appeared with court-appointed counsel Michael Dotts at a hearing on Friday, pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with one count of distribution of methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p>He will be sentenced on June 13, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>According to the plea agreement, Zhao provided 0.60 grams of \u201cice\u201d to an individual on March 6, 2012 in exchange for between $200 and $400.<\/p>\n<p>A DEA special agent stated in an affidavit that the buyer was their confidential source and that the deal happened outside Zhao\u2019s residence in San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>DEA agents arrested Zhao on Jan. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuan Rong Zhao, a 41-year-old man arrested in January by Drug Enforcement Administration agents for&#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":[],"class_list":["post-29507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29507","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=29507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}