Board of Parole Chairman Ramon B. Camacho told the Variety that Diaz, 51, was paroled on March 12, 2010 and has to comply to a “very strict set of conditions.”
Diaz now resides at the home of his sister in Afetnas, San Antonio.
According to the special conditions imposed by the Board of Parole, Diaz has to “compose and record a song” in Chamorro and English about drug abuse in the CNMI, as well as “conduct outreach [public education] at all public and/or private schools about drug abuse.”
Diaz’s composition has to be “publicly played on all the radio stations” and he has to provide a master disc to the Public School System “for educational purpose at all schools.”
Asked for copy of the governor’s order that commuted Diaz’s sentence, Camacho said his office could only provide a copy of the convict’s five-page Certificate of Parole and Terms and Conditions of Parole.
Camacho said relatives of Diaz asked the governor to commute the sentence.
Chief Parole Officer Joseph T. Guerrero told the Variety that other details regarding Diaz’s commutation of sentence must come from the governor’s office.
Diaz was sentenced in 2004 by then-Judge Juan T. Lizama to 25 years imprisonment without parole after he was found guilty by a jury of “ice” trafficking. He was arrested in Aug. 2001.
Close to 290 grams of “ice” and marijuana were seized from Diaz by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the CNMI Drug Task Force.
