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$100K bail set for two accused of possessing ‘ice’
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Posted on Jan 04 2023
The Superior Court has imposed a $100,000 cash bail on two individual who were accused of possession of methamphetamine or “ice” after they were allegedly caught with the substance following a traffic stop.
Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph Camacho imposed separate $100,000 cash bails on Qiu Kemmy Encha, 38, and Morell Bayani Esteves, 47, after they were allegedly caught in possession of “ice” following a traffic stop last week.
The co-defendants are each facing one charge of possession of a controlled substance.
Following their bail hearing, both defendants were remanded back to Department of Corrections custody and were ordered to return to court for a preliminary hearing today, Jan. 4, at 10am. Meanwhile, their arraignment is set for Jan. 9 at 9am.
According to court documents, on the afternoon of Nov. 2, 2022, a patrol police officer traveling south on Texas Road, Susupe observed a maroon sedan traveling north with its window rolled halfway.
Police noted that the female driver, later identified as Qui, was not wearing a seatbelt, prompting the officers to make a U-turn in pursuit of the sedan to conduct a violator stop.
Upon approaching the vehicle, the police officer saw Qui with a male, later identified as Esteves, seated in the front passenger seat.
The officer told the driver why she was pulled over, and asked her to present her driver’s license, vehicle registration and insurance documents.
As the police officer was speaking to Qui, he said he noticed a small, clear Ziploc bag on the driver side that contained a cut straw and a crystalline substance inside it.
When police asked about the contents of the Ziploc bag, Qiu said, “Asiga,” the Chamorro word for salt and denied that it belonged to her. The substance later tested positive for methamphetamine through a field narcotics identification kit.
At the booking section of the Department of Corrections, Esteves was searched by Corrections officers who found two clear Ziploc bags containing a crystalline substance hidden in his cellphone case. The contents also tested positive for methamphetamine.
