A man was terminated from the CNMI Drug Court Program and pleaded guilty to illegal possession of methamphetamine.<\/p>\n
Superior Court Associate Judge Teresa K. Kim-Tenorio said that Milton Borja Camacho will not continue with the Drug Court Program. <\/p>\n
Camacho, 38, waived his constitutional rights and pleaded guilty to illegal possession of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n
Kim-Tenorio set a status conference in Camacho\u2019s case for Nov. 7 before Associate Judge Wesley Bogdan.<\/p>\n
According to the factual basis of the plea agreement, Camacho was found in possession of crystal methamphetamine on April 21, 2016.<\/p>\n
The offense carries a maximum sentence of not more than five years imprisonment, not subject to suspension, parole or probation, and a fine of $2,000.<\/p>\n
Camacho was first arrested on Oct. 31, 2016, by the CNMI Drug Enforcement Task Force for trafficking and illegal possession of methamphetamine.<\/p>\n
The arrest was made after Camacho allegedly sold $160 worth of \u201cice\u201d to the Drug Enforcement Task Force\u2019s \u201ccooperating source\u201d during a sting operation at his home in Chalan Kanoa on April 21, 2016.<\/p>\n
Upon his arrest, Camacho agreed to serve as a confidential informant in exchange for his release on own recognizance. The court granted the authorities\u2019 request for Camacho\u2019s release.<\/p>\n
But in June 2017, assistant attorney general Chester Hinds, counsel for the government, asked the court to revoke Camacho\u2019s release for failure to help law enforcers with investigations.<\/p>\n
The court granted the government\u2019s motion and Camacho was re-arrested in June 2017.<\/p>\n
Camacho was then later allowed to participate in the CNMI Drug Court Program, which requires two years to complete.<\/p>\n
Camacho, however, tested positive for drug use after failing his urinalysis test several times. This prompted Hinds to move Camacho\u2019s termination from the Drug Court Program.<\/p>\n
Camacho did not deny the positive tests, but asked the court to give him more time.<\/p>\n
Kim-Tenorio denied Camacho\u2019s request as he has already been given many chances.<\/p>\n
Sean Frink served as the court-appointed counsel for Camacho. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man was terminated from the CNMI Drug Court Program and pleaded guilty to illegal…<\/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-311286","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\/311286","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=311286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}