U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Alex R. Munson gave 38-year old Jin Ying Min credit for time already served.
Upon his release, the defendant will be on supervised release for six years under several conditions, including seeing the immigration official for deportation proceedings and not committing another federal, state or local crime.
The defendant must not possess a controlled substance and must submit to a drug test within 15 days of release from jail, followed by at least two periodic drug tests thereafter.
He is prohibited from possessing firearm or dangerous weapons, and must submit a collection of a DNA sample at the direction of the U.S. Probation Office.
The defendant will perform 100 hours of community service. He will pay a special assessment fee of $100 but all other fines are waived.
The defendant was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshal Service after the hearing.
David Banes appeared on behalf of court-appointed counsel George Hasselback for the defense while Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric O’Malley represented the Federal government.
Munson issued a no-bail order for the defendant on Sept. 2, 2008.
The defendant entered into a plea agreement with the federal court on Dec. 1, 2008, and entered a guilty plea to one count of distribution of a controlled substance near a school.
He was indicted for one count of distributing approximately 0.4 gram of methamphetamine on Aug. 27, 2008 and another count for distribution of a controlled substance near a school.
A Drug Enforcement Administration special agent stated in his affidavit that at 8:10 a.m. on Aug. 27, 2008, the Saipan DEA office and the Department of Public Safety contacted a confidential source on Tinian and ordered $100 to $150 worth of ice from the defendant.
Surveillance agents were posted outside a poker parlor, less than 1,000 feet away from Grace Christian Academy.
The transaction pushed through, resulting in the arrest of the defendant after he handed over a small Ziplock bag containing crushed, glass-like substance to the confidential source.
The surveillance team confiscated 2.6 grams of ice from the defendant’s wallet. The defendant told the surveillance team that he obtained ice from a source on Saipan who used different telephone numbers everyday to contact him.
