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2 suspected ‘ice’ traffickers arrested
Two alleged traffickers of methamphetamine or “ice” on Saipan were arrested on Tuesday.
Derek Camacho Reyes, 35, and Raymond Yokota Dador, 29, were arrested for trafficking of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance.
At a hearing yesterday, Superior Court Associate Judge Teresa Kim-Tenorio kept the $100,000 cash bail that the court earlier imposed on each defendants.
Preliminary hearing for Reyes will be on Jan. 20 at 9am; Dador’s is on Jan. 18 at 9am.
Assistant public defender Nancy Dominski was appointed as counsel for Reyes and Dador. Assistant attorney general Chester Hinds appeared for the government.
Hinds in court documents disclosed that CNMI Drug Enforcement Task Force officer Roque K. Camacho arrested Reyes on Dec. 10, 2016.
Upon his arrest, Reyes told law enforcers that he will serve as a confidential informant in exchange for his release without cash bail.
The court granted the government’s request to seal the case against Reyes and release him. Yet Reyes has not cooperated with law enforcement in ongoing investigations.
The court granted the government’s request to unseal the case and revoke Reyes’ release. This led to his re-arrest.
Camacho said their cooperating source managed to purchase $40 worth of “ice” from Reyes during a “buy-walk operation” outside his residence in Sadog Tasi last Dec. 7.
Camacho said Reyes assisted them in conducting a controlled buy-walk operation against his “ice” source last Dec. 10.
Camacho said after the arrest of the alleged “ice” supplier, a Chinese national, Reyes stopped providing valuable information and resorted to selling drugs.
In Dador’s case, task force officer Rudolph C. Sablan Jr. stated in his report that a cooperating defendant was able to buy $40 worth of “ice” from Dador during a “buy-walk” operation at her house in Finasisu last Nov. 25.
