Court-appointed defense attorney Joseph James Norita Camacho yesterday told the court that his client, Wei Lin, has been experiencing severe abdominal pains and is “discharging blood in his bowel movements.”
Camacho said his client has been in detention at the CNMI Department of Corrections facility since his arrest last April.
Camacho made a written request to Corrections for medical assistance.
The Corrections nurse, Camacho said, examined Wei Lin, but “no medication or remedy was prescribed and defendant Lin continues to suffer severe abdominal pains.”
According to Corrections, Wei Lin is under the custody of the U.S. Marshal Service which must bring the defendant to the Commonwealth Health Center or a clinic, Camacho said.
He said he had “made repeated verbal, written and email requests to the U.S. Attorney’s Office to have [his client] receive medical assistance.”
“To date, defendant Lin has yet to receive any medical assistance to determine what is causing the severe abdominal pains and the bloody discharges,” Camacho said.
In his June 23 follow-up letter, Camacho told the U.S. Attorney’s Office that prior to and since his client’s arrest, the defendant “has been plagued with severe aches in his joints and knees as well as nasal congestion that makes it hard for him to breathe.”
Camacho said his client is suffering from constant stomach ache and there is blood in his stool.
Last May, Wei Lin was indicted on two counts of document fraud and one count of false statements to a federal agent, in connection with his possession of a CNMI driver’s license fraudulently procured.
