Chief Judge Alex R. Munson also placed Ya Bin Huang under supervised release for four years.
The defendant, who admitted his guilt in Nov. 2009, had been incarcerated at the Department of Corrections since his arrest last October.
The court said the seized gold Rolex watch, which the defendant said he bought for over $1,000 in Garapan, will be auctioned by the U.S. Marshals Service or an appropriate agency to cover the fine imposed on Ya Bin Huang.
After his incarceration, Ya Bin Huang will be delivered to an authorized U.S. immigration official for removal proceedings.
He will remain outside of the United States and its territories and must secure authorization from the Department of Homeland Security before he can enter the U.S. and its territories again, the court.
Munson said the sentence imposed on Ya Bin Huang aims “to reflect deterrence” for the “many lives destroyed” by the drug menace.
Ya Bin Huang asked for “forgiveness for doing the wrong thing to the community.”
U.S. Assistant Attorney James Benedetto who prosecuted the case told the court that Ya Bin Huang belongs to an international criminal organization that can monitor phone calls and conducts counter-surveillance.
The group, the prosecution added, has a compartmentalized organizational structure.
Benedetto said the “92.9 per cent purity” of the controlled substance seized from Ya Bin Huang came from China or elsewhere.
Court-appointed attorney Steven Pixley represented Ya Bin Huang.
Ya Bin Huang was Chun Mei Lin’s companion who sold 14.1 grams of “ice” worth $6,000 to a Drug Enforcement Administration’s confidential source in the parking lot of a store in Chalan Kanoa on Aug. 29, 2008.
Biao Huang and Sheng Lian — the other companions of Ya Bin Huang and Chun Mei Lin — were arrested after they tried to sell 947 grams of “ice” to a confidential source and an undercover FBI agent at a hotel in Susupe.
A total of 1,021.4 grams of ice worth $510,000 were seized prior to the arrest of the four defendants, the DEA said.
