Ex-Guam officer sentenced to 8 years for growing marijuana
Former Guam police officer Roy Pablo was sentenced to eight years in prison in Hagatna on 15 January 2015 for growing marijuana while serving in the police department. His companion Ah-Rum Rose Kim received a two-year sentence at the same hearing after pleading guilty to possession with intent to deliver.
A former Guam police officer was sentenced to eight years in prison for growing
marijuana while he was employed by the police department.[1]The officer was
identified as Roy Pablo, who had been convicted in October on drug charges.[1]At the same hearing, Pablo’s companion, Ah-Rum Rose Kim, received a two-year
sentence.[1]The hearing took place in Hagatna, Guam.[1]The sentencing
hearing was held on 15 January 2015.[1]
Pablo had been arrested in November 2013 as part of an investigation into a
Dededo growth operation.[1]Kim, who had been accused of selling marijuana and
other drugs, had earlier pleaded guilty to possession with intent to deliver.[1]
At the hearing, Pablo said he was afraid he would not be able to support his
family in prison.[1]Judge Alberto Lamorena said Pablo’s disregard for the law
he was supposed to enforce made his crimes all the more deplorable.[1]
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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.
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.
A federal judge sentenced former Jose Rios Middle School math teacher Vincent John Quitugua to 57 months in prison on 6 July 2017 over an indoor marijuana grow in Piti, where agents found 121 plants and 429 grams of processed marijuana. Quitugua pleaded guilty in a case mixing methamphetamine and cannabis charges, and the marijuana distribution charge was dismissed.
A federal judge sentenced Joseph Wendell Monton Develles, 23, to 21 months in prison for possessing about 3.4 pounds (some 1.5 kg) of marijuana with intent to distribute and keeping firearms while on probation. Probation officers had found the drugs, a pistol, a rifle and $26,300 at his home during a random search.
