Chief Judge Alex R. Munson set the preliminary examination hearing of 38-year-old Ying Min Jin for Sept. 5 at 9 a.m. and appointed attorney George L. Hasselback to represent the defendant.
The defendant was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service until further order of the court.
Ying Min Jin was charged with one count of distributing approximately .4 grams of methamphetamine on Aug. 27, 2008 and another count for distribution of a controlled substance near a school or college.
A complaint filed by the Drug Enforcement Administration special agent stated that the DEA received numerous fax messages from anonymous sources identifying the defendant as an “ice” trafficker on Tinian.
The special said that at 8:10 a.m. on Aug. 27, 2008, the Saipan DEA office and the Department of Public Safety met with a confidential source on Tinian so the source could buy “ice” from the defendant.
The source called the defendant and ordered $100 to $150 worth of “ice” that would be picked up later.
The DEA agent said surveillance agents were deployed near the pre-arranged location outside a poker parlor less than 1,000 feet away from Grace Christian Academy.
The confidential source received a small zip-lock bag containing crushed, glass-like substance.
Police arrested the defendant and were able to confiscate another 2.6 grams of methamphetamine or “ice” from his wallet.
Ying Min Jin stated he obtained the “ice” from a source on Saipan who used different telephone numbers everyday to contact him.
The defendant said his source on Saipan regularly dispatches the “ice” he needed.
