{"id":314,"date":"2012-01-03T07:49:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T07:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=314"},"modified":"2012-01-03T07:49:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T07:49:00","slug":"rep-palacios-i-will-take-drug-test-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/rep-palacios-i-will-take-drug-test-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Palacios: I will take drug test this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Haidee V. Eugenio<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>More than two months since his arrest on trafficking of methamphetamine or \u201cice\u201d charges, Rep. Ray Palacios (Cov-Saipan) said he will undergo drug testing during the first week of 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Palacios said the only thing that&#8217;s stopping him from taking the drug test is \u201clack of money\u201d for the testing. He added that he would have liked to undergo drug testing but doesn&#8217;t have the extra $50 or so to do it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am broke. My take home pay is only $212 after all deductions. But yes I will take the drug test [this] week,\u201d Palacios told Saipan Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>Superior Court associate judge David A. Wiseman on Thursday found Palacios in contempt for disobeying court orders requiring him to make monthly payments in connection with a consolidated 11-year-old civil case. Palacios has many financial obligations.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Eli Cabrera (R-Saipan) asked House members to undergo drug testing in October to help remove suspicion in anyone\u2019s mind about lawmakers, following Ray Palacios&#8217; arrest on charges of drug trafficking and alleged drug use.<\/p>\n<p>As of yesterday, only nine have submitted themselves to drug testing. While most results came back \u201cnegative,\u201d other results have yet to be received. The nine included Delegate Gregorio Kilili Sablan (Ind-MP).<\/p>\n<p>Three more said they will undergo drug testing: Rep. Ray Basa (Cov-Saipan), Rep. Ray Tebuteb (R-Saipan), and Rep. Tony Sablan (R-Saipan).<\/p>\n<p>Besides Cabrera and Delegate Sablan, the following have also undergone drug testing since October: Floor leader George Camacho (Ind-Saipan), Rep. Teresita Santos (Ind-Rota), Rep. Ray Yumul (R-Saipan), Rep. Frank Dela Cruz (R-Saipan), Rep. Edmund Villagomez (Cov-Saipan), Rep. Joseph Palacios (R-Saipan), and Rep. Fred Deleon Guerrero (Ind-Saipan). The latter has yet to get his results back.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Froilan Tenorio (Cov-Saipan) said yesterday he will not undergo drug testing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy should I need to prove to anybody that I&#8217;m not a drug addict, just because somebody was arrested on drug charges?\u201d Tenorio asked.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Stanley Torres (Ind-Saipan) also said earlier he won&#8217;t undergo drug testing, pointing out that while he is advocating for the legalization of marijuana, he doesn&#8217;t use drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Other House members either didn\u2019t want to comment or couldn\u2019t be reached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Haidee V. Eugenio Reporter More than two months since his arrest on trafficking of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","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\/314","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}