{"id":376715,"date":"2022-09-28T06:06:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T20:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=376715"},"modified":"2022-09-28T06:06:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T20:06:23","slug":"cooperating-source-is-seeking-disclosure-of-oags-informants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/cooperating-source-is-seeking-disclosure-of-oags-informants\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooperating source is seeking disclosure of OAG\u2019s informants"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Janet King<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The defense counsel in the case of a man accused of selling methamphetamine or \u201cice\u201d wants the court to order the Office of the Attorney general to disclose who their informants were prior to trial.<\/p>\n

Qiu Yongqiang, through his attorney Janet King, has filed a motion asking the Superior Court to compel the Office of the Attorney General to reveal the identity of its informants.<\/p>\n

In her motion to compel, King said the Commonwealth intends to prove at trial that a \u201cChinese male\u201d who handed methamphetamine to a Drug Enforcement Task Force Cooperating Source No. 831495 or CS and Cooperating Defendant No. 045779 or CD on two occasions was Qiu.<\/p>\n

The lawyer noted that on April 12, 2022, a Chinese male known to the CS as \u201cJason\u201d handed the CS approximately 0.7 gross gram of methamphetamine.<\/p>\n

On this date, King stated, a Drug Enforcement Task Force rode in CS\u2019 vehicle.<\/p>\n

On April 27, 2022, a Chinese male known to the CD as \u201cBrother\u201d handed the CD two small Ziploc bags with approximately 1.6 gross grams of methamphetamine.<\/p>\n

Later, the CD identified \u201cBrother\u201d as Qiu. No DETF officer accompanied the CD during this exchange, King said.<\/p>\n

\u201cCS and CD played prominent roles in the arrest and prosecution of the defendant and therefore their identities are \u201crelevant and helpful\u201d and should be disclosed, King said,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n

King claims, based on these arguments, that her client could prove that CS would contradict DETF\u2019s Cris Deleon Guerrero\u2019s version of the events or exculpate the defendant.<\/p>\n

King said the defendant is entitled to the disclosure of CD\u2019s identity because the informant is the only witness in a position to amplify or contradict the testimony of the defendant.<\/p>\n

\u201cSimilarly alarming is that the CD identified the Chinese male in the transaction on April 27, 2022 as \u2018Brother\u2019 [but] there is no other information how CD later identified \u2018Brother\u2019 as this defendant,\u201d the lawyer stated.<\/p>\n

The court is set to commence Qui\u2019s jury trial on Oct. 11, 2022.<\/p>\n

According to court documents, following a \u201cbuy-walk\u201d operation conducted by the Department of Public Safety-Drug Enforcement Task Force in April 2022, Qiu was identified by informers as a drug dealer who sold methamphetamine.<\/p>\n

Qiu, 34, is currently facing charges with trafficking of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The defense counsel in the case of a man accused of selling methamphetamine or \u201cice\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":376718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-376715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-oag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376715","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=376715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}