By Cherrie Anne E. Villahermosa
Variety News Staff

A PRELIMINARY hearing was set for a man arrested for distribution of a controlled substance — “ice.”
Kuo Chung Wei, 41, also known as John Wei, will return to court on April 26 at 10 a.m.
He was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service after the hearing on Tuesday morning.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig Moore moved that Wei be held without bail which U.S. District Court for NMI Chief Judge Alex Munson granted without prejudice.
The court will appoint a lawyer for Wei as it was determined that he is an indigent.
The complaint filed in court charged Wei with two counts of distribution of a controlled substance.
The complaint stated that Wei on April 5 and 6 distributed a controlled substance, approximately 6 grams of methamphetamine in a form commonly known as “ice.”
During the buy-bust operation conducted on April 5, Wei sold $350 worth of “ice” to a confidential source in front of the Sister Remedio School in Chalan Kanoa.
On April 6, Wei and the confidential source met again at the same place for another drug transaction.
Wei was arrested later after his vehicle was stopped by police for failing to signal while switching lanes in Chalan Kanoa.
Authorities searched him and recovered the buy-bust money.