By Gina Tabonares
Variety News Staff

THE remaining case against former Police Captain Gene Tennessen will be continued on May 1.
The retired Guam Police Department officer was convicted last year on theft and official misconduct charges. He is facing a separate case in connection with an alleged tampering of a witness over a firearm case.
He allegedly tried to influence a police officer to change his statements about a theft case in which he was implicated.
The case has been delayed because of the unavailability of GPD transcripts.
The court earlier ordered the government counsel to release the GPD Internal Affairs report involving the case of Tennessen.
The court ruled in favor of the defense motion to provide the discovery, and the Attorney General’s Office had promised to produce the information.
Tennessen was placed under house arrest after he was convicted in the trial and is now appealing his conviction before the Supreme Court of Guam.
‘Ice’ sentencing
In other news, a man was sentenced to two years of imprisonment after admitting to a felony case that involved importation of thousands of grams of methamphetamine from Korea.
Douglas Duckjoo Kim, 57, was ordered by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood to remain in a U.S. prison facility for 24 months with credit for the one year and two months he served.
Upon his release, Kim needs to be put under supervised release for three years and should report to the probation office. He was also ordered to comply with standard conditions of supervision.
Judge Tydingco-Gatewood recommended to the Bureau of Prison to get medical services for Kim’s Parkinson’s disease at a federal medical center.
In a plea agreement he entered through his lawyer, Howard Trapp, Kim admitted that on Nov. 24, 2005, he brought to Guam approximately 2,911.6 grams of methamphetamine hydrochloride.
Kim stated that he obtained the drugs from a certain “Mr. Lee” in Seoul, Korea, who provided airfare and a sum of $1,000 to him to import and distribute the drugs to Guam.
The drugs were packed in eight plastic bags and concealed in the sides and bottom of the defendant’s black attaché case.
A forensic chemist analyzed the controlled substance and determined that it was 1,722 grams of methamphetamine also known as “ice.”
The maximum sentence for importation of approximately 2,911 grams of “ice” is life imprisonment with a $4 million fine and a minimum mandatory term of 10 years of incarceration.
The defense counsel, however, argued that Kim cooperated with authorities in their investigation of drug-related cases and provided truthful and substantial assistance that guaranteed a lower sentence.