{"id":31645,"date":"2014-04-07T08:32:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T00:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tribune.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=31645"},"modified":"2014-04-07T08:32:26","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T00:32:26","slug":"ex-cop-re-arrested-using-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/ex-cop-re-arrested-using-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-cop re-arrested for using \u2018ice\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

CNMI Court Marshals arrested former police officer Victor Val B. Hocog on Friday after he tested positive for using methamphetamine or \u201cice.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>
\nSuperior Court Presiding Judge Robert C. Naraja reinstated a previous order imposing a $100,000 cash bail plus other conditions for Hocog\u2019s temporary release.<\/p>\n

Hocog, 39, is prohibited from using a controlled substance as part of the bail conditions that the court earlier imposed on him in granting his request to lower his original $100,000 cash bail to $10,000.<\/p>\n

Assistant attorney general Margo Brown-Badawy asked the court to forfeit the $10,000 cash bail that Hocog posted.<\/p>\n

Part of Hocog\u2019s bail conditions requires him to undergo a weekly drug test. Adult probation officer Simram Simram testified in court during Friday\u2019s revocation hearing that Hocog admitted to using \u201cice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simram said they called Hocog on Friday afternoon and subjected him to drug test. When the drug test found Hocog positive for using \u201cice,\u201d court marshals arrested him.<\/p>\n

Simram said that Hocog admitted smoking leftover \u201cice\u201d that was contained in a pipe.<\/p>\n

Before the hearing, Hocog\u2019s mother was seen crying while talking to Hocog and the latter\u2019s counsel, assistant public defender Matthew Meyer. The mother, who was speaking in Chamorro, appeared to be berating Hocog.<\/p>\n

Police first arrested Hocog on Jan. 27. At the time, he was a police officer 1 assigned with the Department of Patrol Section.<\/p>\n

Drug Enforcement Task Force detective Jeffrey Norita stated in his report that members of the CNMI Drug Enforcement Task Force and Drug Enforcement Administration Task Force held two sting operations during which Hocog handed a total of $100 worth of \u201cice\u201d to the task force\u2019s cooperating source at a poker arcade in As Lito.<\/p>\n

Norita said that he and Detective Elias Q. Saralu met and spoke with a cooperating source last Jan. 21 to talk about a police officer who is allegedly active in selling \u201cice\u201d on Saipan.<\/p>\n

Norita said the police officer, who was known by the cooperating source as Val Hocog, was later identified as Police Officer Victor Val Hocog.<\/p>\n

At a preliminary hearing in February, Superior Court Associate Judge David A. Wiseman found probable to warrant the filing of charges against Hocog for two counts of trafficking of controlled substance and two counts of illegal possession of controlled substance.<\/p>\n

Hocog is son of Sen. Victor Hocog of Rota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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