Associate Judge Ramona A. Manglona gave Huang Dong of Rifu Apparel Corp. credit for time he already served from June 4, 2008. He will be released from the custody of the Department of Corrections on June 4, 2010.
Manglona ordered the defendant to pay a fine of $2,000 and a court assessment fee of $100 within 30 days.
He will be deported after serving his prison sentence and will cooperate with the Attorney General’s Office in completing the necessary papers and processing his deportation.
Huang Dong appeared for a change of plea on Feb. 4, 2009 represented by Assistant Public Defender Douglas W. Hartig. Chief Prosecutor Kevin A. Lynch appeared on behalf of the government.
The defendant waived his rights and entered a guilty plea to the crime of possession of a controlled substance.
The defendant apologized for his wrongful acts and asked for a lenient sentence.
The court noted that the defendant, by accepting his plea, avoided the possibility of being found guilty of two counts of trafficking controlled substance.
The AGO and the Division of Immigration said the respondent entered the CNMI with a nonresident worker’s permit status and has committed one felony offense for illegal possession of a controlled substance.
Assistant Attorney General Kathleen R. Busenkell said the respondent has signed a stipulation to deportation.
Huang Dong was arrested with another person for trafficking and possession of a controlled substance during an operation in June last year.
Associate Judge David A. Wiseman set a cash bail of $50,000 for Huang Dong and his co-defendant Huang Feichuan.
The police affidavit submitted in court stated that officers of the Department of Public Safety’s Narcotics Unit and the Drug Enforcement Administration conducted a control buy walk operations on April 18, 2008 through a cooperating source.
The source called the defendant’s cellular phone and ordered $500 worth of ice from him. The two agreed to meet in As Lito for the transaction.
On April 29, the authorities conducted another buy walk operation next to Sherwood across from Hopwood Junior High School where the cooperating source managed to purchase $250 worth of ice from Huang Dong.
