G. Anthony Long, Sablan’s counsel, has notified the U.S. District Court for the NMI about the filing of the appeal.
Sablan received a 70-month jail sentence for possession of a controlled substance — “ice” — with intent to distribute and another 15 months for the revocation of her probation.
Sablan was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service after her sentencing in federal court earlier this month.
She now awaits relocation to a federal prison in the U.S. that will be designated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
On or about July 28, 2009, according to count six of the second superseding indictment filed against her, Sablan “knowingly and intentionally possessed a controlled substance, namely 0.07 net grams of methamphetamine hydrochloride, with the intent to distribute it, at Banana Beach in Tanapag village.”
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the pre-dawn operations in Sept. 2009 that led to the arrest of Sablan and other defendants were the result of an 18-month-long Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force investigation by federal law enforcement agencies: the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Marshals Service, and the U.S. Coast Guard.
On March 20, 2007, the federal court on Saipan sentenced Sablan to 24 months imprisonment for conspiracy, possession, and distribution of “ice,” followed by six years of supervised release that started on Sept. 18, 2008.
On Sept. 16, 2009, the U.S. government filed new drug charges against Sablan.
