U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Alex R. Munson yesterday said the pre-sentencing investigative report of Manuel Aldan Sablan should be submitted on Dec. 2, 2008.
Sablan appeared with his court-appointed counsel George Hasselback. The federal government was represented by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Eric O’Malley and Kirk Schuler.
Sablan entered a guilty plea to the charges filed against him for one count of distribution, possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance.
The court accepted the plea and the plea agreement and Sablan was referred to the U.S. Probations Office for investigation and report.
Based on the court documents, his offense carries a maximum sentence of 30 years imprisonment, a fine of up to $2,000,000, a special assessment fee of $100 and a minimum supervised release of six years.
Records showed that on Dec. 1, 2007, a small plastic bag with crystalline substance was taken from the possession of the defendant during a buy bust operation.
The substance was submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice’s southwest laboratory for chemical analysis. A qualified forensic chemist measured the crystalline substance weighing 100 net milligrams. It also turned out to be 91 percent pure “ice.”
Sablan was arrested with two other defendants, Gregory Sablan Kalen and Lawrence Sablan Kalen, on April 24, 2008.
According to the indictment, the defendants conspired to distribute ice from Dec. 1 to Dec. 13, 2007.
On Dec. 1, they distributed and possessed with intent to distribute approximately 0.17 grams of ice.
On Dec. 13, 2007, the defendants distributed and possessed approximately 0.10 net grams of ice.
