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Alleged ‘ice’ supplier on Tinian admits charges
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Posted on Mar 21 2008
A man tagged by authorities as one of the suppliers of crystal methamphetamine or “ice” on Tinian has pleaded guilty.
Zhan Dong Guo, 47, pleaded guilty to three counts of distribution of a controlled substance.
U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Alex R. Munson accepted Guo’s plea and ordered the U.S. Probation Office to submit to the court a pre-sentence investigation report on or before May 20, 2008.
Munson set the sentencing for June 24, 2008 at 9am.
The judge remanded Guo into police custody.
According to the complaint filed by assistant U.S. attorney Craig Moore, Guo distributed “ice” on Jan. 9 and 10, 2008.
A Drug Enforcement Administration special agent stated in his report that on Jan. 9, detectives from the Department of Public Safety debriefed a confidential source regarding “ice” traffickers on Tinian.
The cource informed the agents that a certain Tony was distributing “ice” at the Pacific Laundry in San Jose, Tinian. Authorities later identified Tony as defendant Guo.
The same day, the police source and another undercover agent managed to buy $250 worth of “ice” from Guo in the parking lot of J. J. Mart.
The following day, Jan. 10, the same source and undercover agent purchased a total of $400 worth of “ice” from Guo in two separate transactions inside a room at Pacific Laundry.
The surveillance officers then entered the Pacific Laundry during the second transaction but the defendant allegedly struggled briefly before being overpowered.
