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Bench warrant issued vs suspected ‘ice’ trafficker
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Posted on Mar 01 2012
Superior Court associate judge Joseph N. Camacho issued yesterday a bench warrant for the arrest of a suspected “ice” trafficker who failed to appear at a change of plea hearing.
Camacho granted assistant attorney general Nicole Driscoll’s verbal request for the issuance of a bench warrant in the amount of $2,000 for Lian Jun Li.
Li’s counsel, assistant public defender Daniel Guidotti, told the court that they could not contact the defendant as well as his third-party custodian.
In the government’s declaration in support of plea agreement, Driscoll said the defendant was charged with a series of trafficking and possession crimes resulting from three separate controlled buys in Nov. 2011.
“While serious, this was the defendant’s first arrest in the CNMI, and the total amount of the crystal methamphetamine at issue, 2.3 gross grams, was fairly low,” Driscoll said.
The prosecutor said the negotiated plea agreement is consistent with other agreements accepted by the court for similar first time drug trafficking offenses.
The Office of the Attorney General had charged the 48-year-old Li with three counts of trafficking of a controlled substance, and three counts of illegal possession of a controlled substance.
