{"id":85027,"date":"2004-10-22T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-22T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a0e4fb4a-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2004-10-22T06:01:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-22T06:01:00","slug":"a0e4fb5b-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a0e4fb5b-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"4 nabbed for alleged drug trafficking try"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal authorities took custody of four persons who were accused of conspiring to traffic illegal drugs into Guam.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the defendants yielded more than 350 grams of methamphetamine hydrochloride, commonly known as \u201cice,\u201d which were found inside prophylactics hidden inside their pants.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. District Court imposed no bail on defendants Steve Kim, Sang Mee Chun, Young Ju Kwon, and Jae Young Park.<\/p>\n<p>In a complaint filed with the court, Ray M. Renguul, an agent for the Drug Enforcement Administration\/CNMI Task Force, said Kwon and Park were about to leave for Guam when task force agents introduced themselves to the two defendants at the Saipan International Airport last Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the agents frisked the two defendants and discovered on each of them a condom containing ice. The defendant hid the condoms inside their pants.<\/p>\n<p>Renguul said Kwon yielded 172 grams of ice, while Park yielded 180 grams.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants became the subject of surveillance by the task force beginning Monday when Guam\u2019s DEA office informed it about the defendants\u2019 alleged drug smuggling plan.<\/p>\n<p>Chun, Kwon and Park arrived on Saipan that day from Seoul, Korea, while Kim also came to the island from Guam on the same day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal authorities took custody of four persons who were accused of conspiring to traffic illegal drugs into Guam.<\/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-85027","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\/85027","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=85027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}