{"id":32189,"date":"2014-04-11T08:35:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T00:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tribune.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=32189"},"modified":"2014-04-11T08:35:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T00:35:55","slug":"guam-drug-traffickers-indicted-joint-federal-local-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/guam-drug-traffickers-indicted-joint-federal-local-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Guam drug traffickers indicted in joint federal, local investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HAGATNA<\/strong>, Guam\u2014Alicia A.G. Limtiaco, U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that a federal grand jury has returned a multi-count indictment charging three individuals with conspiracy to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine, two counts of attempted possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, and giving notice of a search warrant. <\/p>\n<p>Jayvin Wyll Ueda Remoket, 30, Frederick A. Obak, 47, And Amos Shioichi Ueda, 46, were arrested Thursday last week by law enforcement agents. A conviction for conspiracy to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years imprisonment and a maximum of life imprisonment. <\/p>\n<p>Initial appearances for defendants were held on April 3, 2014, at 4pm. <\/p>\n<p>This case is the product of an extensive investigation by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, a focused multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional task force investigating and prosecuting the most significant drug trafficking organizations throughout the United States by leveraging the combined expertise of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. <\/p>\n<p>This investigation involved federal agents and local law enforcement officers of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Bureau of Investigations, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and Guam Customs and Quarantine Agency; with assistance from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms &#038; Explosives, Guam Police Department, Guam Probation Division and Homeland Security Investigations. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Rosetta San Nicolas. <\/p>\n<p>The public is reminded that an indictment contains only allegations and is not evidence of guilt. The defendants are presumed innocent and are entitled to a fair trial at which the government has the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. <strong><em>(USAO)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAGATNA, Guam\u2014Alicia A.G. Limtiaco, U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,21,121,57],"class_list":["post-32189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-guam","tag-life","tag-northern-mariana-islands","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32189","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}