{"id":973,"date":"2012-01-13T07:54:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T07:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=973"},"modified":"2012-01-13T07:54:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T07:54:13","slug":"suspected-ice-supplier-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/suspected-ice-supplier-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected &#8216;ice&#8217; supplier falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Ferdie de la Torre<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>Detectives arrested a suspected methamphetamine or \u201cice\u201d supplier on Wednesday in As Lito.<\/p>\n<p>Lun Lai Xia, 33, jobless, was taken to the Superior Court yesterday afternoon on charges of trafficking and possession of a controlled substance. His bail was set at $50,000 cash. Preliminary hearing is on Jan. 19, 2012, at 9am. Associate Judge David A. Wiseman appointed the Office of Public Defender to represent Xia.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Dennis Reyes, who took the witness stand yesterday, said that a \u201ccooperating defendant\u201d managed to buy a total of $340 worth of \u201cice\u201d from Xia in two buy-walk operations.<\/p>\n<p>After the second buy-walk, which allegedly happened near a school, detectives followed the suspect&#8217;s car and arrested him. Reyes said the substance recovered from the suspect tested presumptive positive for \u201cice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Xia told the court he has been on Saipan for seven months now. Saipan Tribune learned that the suspect had already been on Saipan before and had just come back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ferdie de la Torre Reporter Detectives arrested a suspected methamphetamine or \u201cice\u201d supplier on&#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-973","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\/973","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=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}