CHIEF Judge Ramona V. Manglona of the District Court for the NMI has revoked Joanne Deleon Guerrero Castro’s supervised release and sentenced her to three months’ imprisonment for testing positive for methamphetamine use.
After serving her sentence, Castro will be placed on 33 months of supervised release, the judge said.
She ordered Castro to self-surrender to the Department of Corrections today at 10 a.m.
In 2019, Castro was one of the individuals flagged by a pharmacy and reported to the Drug Enforcement Agency for their “curious pattern” of buying cold medicine that contained pseudoephedrine.
Castro pleaded guilty to possession of illegal chemicals used for making methamphetamine on June 20, 2019.
She also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess prescription nasal decongestant that contained the ingredient pseudoephedrine, a chemical commonly used to make methamphetamine or “ice.”
The federal court sentenced her to 87 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, which began on Jan. 10, 2025, and set to expire on Jan. 9, 2028.
Castro was represented by attorney Robert T. Torres, who opposed the petition for revocation of supervised release.
For his part, Assistant U.S. Attorney Garth Backe supported the petition to revoke Castro’s supervised release.
