{"id":295316,"date":"2019-03-12T06:06:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T20:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=295316"},"modified":"2019-03-12T06:06:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T20:06:40","slug":"benavente-pleads-not-guilty-to-ice-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/benavente-pleads-not-guilty-to-ice-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Benavente pleads not guilty to \u2018ice\u2019 trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Drug Court graduate Skyler James Benavente has pleaded not guilty to new \u201cice\u201d trafficking allegations. <\/p>\n<p>During his arraignment hearing, Benavente, 32, pleaded not guilty to trafficking of methamphetamine or \u201cice\u201d before presiding judge Roberto Naraja. <\/p>\n<p>Benavente was represented by the Office of the Public Defender while the Office of the Attorney General\u2019s Chester Hinds represented the government. <\/p>\n<p>According to court information, Benavente was arrested following a \u201cbuy-walk\u201d operation of the Drug Enforcement Task Force on Jan. 31, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Court information states that a cooperating source helped task force officers in a sting operation last Jan. 31, 2019, during which they were able to allegedly procure a small ziplock bag from Benavente that contained a crystalline substance that later tested positive for methamphetamine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Drug Court graduate Skyler James Benavente has pleaded not guilty to new \u201cice\u201d trafficking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295316","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\/295316","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}