Four grams of marijuana found in a parcel mailed from California to Mangilao, Guam
A package sent from Citrus Heights, California, to an address on University Drive in Mangilao, Guam, was searched in October 2021 and found to hold four grams of marijuana. The case was unsealed in federal court in July 2022, and no charges had been filed.
A package searched on 4 October 2021 on its way into Guam was found to contain
four grams of marijuana.[1]The parcel had been sent from Citrus Heights,
California, to an address on University Drive in Mangilao, a village on Guam’s
eastern coast.[1]
The search was detailed in a federal court case that was unsealed in early July
2022, alongside a second case about a mailed package containing methamphetamine.[1]
No charges had been filed in connection with either case when the account was
published.[1]
Case data
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No charging decision or later court step for the mailed marijuana parcel was reported; the account, published 3 July 2022, says no charges had been filed at that point.
The article does not name the federal agency that searched the parcel, nor whether anyone was questioned at the Mangilao address.
Only one account of the event was available; the federal court record itself was not opened.
The article's lead photograph shows a methamphetamine package from a different 2020 case and is not a picture of this marijuana seizure.
Guam Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero said she would issue an executive order pardoning people convicted of petty crimes or misdemeanors involving marijuana before the island legalized cannabis in 2019. She said the convictions were blocking residents from finding work, and Sen. Clynt Ridgell backed the move.
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Guam police stopped a man in Tumon after a witness said someone matching his description offered marijuana for sale, and found a bag of suspected marijuana and a pipe with what appeared to be methamphetamine in his backpack. Jack Nor, also known as Robert Mackson, was charged in the Superior Court of Guam with a first-degree felony count of possession with intent to deliver and two lesser counts.
Guam golfer Nalapon Vongjalorn was sentenced to 10 days in prison on 2 January 2018 after pleading guilty over about 79 grams of marijuana found when he landed at Guam airport in December 2016. A drug-detecting dog alerted customs officers, who found the cannabis in his carry-on luggage and on his person.
