Defendant in ‘ice’ case ordered brought to CHC for wrist injuries

One of two suspected suppliers of methamphetamine or “ice” could not able to move his left wrist as a result of the injuries he suffered when detectives arrested him last Dec. 5.

This prompted chief public defender Adam Hardwicke to raise to the Superior Court last week the urgent need for defendant Yu Hua Wang to be given medical attention.

Acting chief prosecutor Peter Prestley did not object.

Presiding Judge Robert C. Naraja granted the request and ordered the Department of Corrections to immediately transport the 36-year-old Wang to the Commonwealth Health Center for medical attention.

At the hearing, Naraja asked Wang, through an interpreter, to move his left wrist, and observed that he was unable to do so.

When Naraja asked if he had received any medical attention from DOC, the defendant indicated that a nurse did not examine his hand/wrist and that he was only given pain medication.

Wang stated that he is unable to sleep and eat due to the severe pain in his injured wrist.

The Office of the Attorney General has charged Wang and Jin Qing Chen each with two counts of trafficking of controlled substance, illegal possession of controlled substance, and resisting arrest.

The defendants pleaded not guilty.

When the defendants were first taken to the court last Dec. 6, Judge Joseph James N. Camacho noted that Wang’s co-defendant, Chen, had a bandage on the right side of face.

A detective said Chen was tackled to the ground for resisting arrest.

Chen, through an interpreter, told Judge Camacho that he would sue for police brutality.

Camacho told Cheng he has a right to sue, but that he needs to hire a lawyer to do so as it would be a civil matter.

Detective Dennis Reyes testified in that hearing how they were able to buy $200 and $400 worth of “ice” from Chen and Wang using a confidential source in two operations.

Reyes said that 4.45 gross grams of “ice” worth $7,000 was involved as they also recovered more “ice” from one of the suspects’ cars.

The detective said the suspects were uncooperative and resisted arrest when they tried to pull over their vehicles.

Wang, also known as Old Man, was also arrested in March 2010 for allegedly engaging in trafficking “ice.”

The court subsequently dismissed the case after the government failed to give the results of the crime lab analysis to Wang and a co-defendant in that case.