Two men arrested over indoor cannabis grow in Tamuning apartment
Guam police and the Mandaña Drug Task Force searched an apartment at the Sagata Apartments in Tamuning and found an indoor marijuana cultivation operation, drug paraphernalia and fireworks. Two men, aged 33 and 36, were arrested on drug and explosives suspicions and were booked and confined.
🇬🇺 Sagata Apartments, Tamuning, Guam
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Two men were arrested in a Tamuning apartment after police discovered a
marijuana cultivation operation.[1][2]The Mandaña Drug Task Force executed a
search warrant at the Sagata Apartments in Tamuning.[1][2]Officers found an
indoor marijuana cultivation operation inside, along with drug paraphernalia and
fireworks, according to Guam Police Department spokesman Officer A.J. Balajadia.[1][2]
Justin Keith Flores, 33, of Tamuning, was arrested on suspicion of illegal
possession of Schedule I and Schedule II controlled substances, possession of a
Schedule I controlled substance with intent to distribute, unlawful possession
of explosives and possession of a controlled substance related to manufacturing,
and on a family violence allegation from a previous incident.[1]Elliot James
Marques, 36, was arrested on suspicion of illegal possession of a Schedule I
controlled substance and guilt established by complicity.[1]Both men were
booked and confined.[1][2]
The television station KUAM reported the Tamuning marijuana operation as leaving
both men jailed.[3]
The 33-year-old man from Tamuning was also arrested on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance related to manufacturing.[2]The 33-year-old suspect was described as a Tamuning resident.[2]
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KUAMkuam.comTwo men jailed for marijuana operation in Tamuning
Open questions the AI reported
The article says the arrests happened on a Thursday but names no date; 5 October 2017 is used as the incident date because the article is dated 7 October and the preceding Thursday was 5 October, when KUAM published its report.
No number of plants, weight of marijuana, area or value was published; the indoor grow is described without quantities.
The report does not say who owns or occupied the apartment or whether the cultivation itself was charged against either man.
No court outcome, formal charges, plea or bail decision was reported, and the arrests are described as suspicions.
The possession charges name Schedule I and Schedule II controlled substances generically, and the report does not state that every count relates to cannabis.
The family violence allegation against one suspect comes from an earlier, separate incident and is not part of the cannabis case.
KUAM's headline was accessible but its article body did not load, so KUAM is cited only for the men being jailed.
This article spells the task force name "Mandana", while the report and its other source use "Mandaña".
The report gives the men's ages as 33 and 36 but does not name them in its prose, and the article's charge list includes a Schedule II controlled substance and a firearms-adjacent explosives count that are not stated to involve cannabis.
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.
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.
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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.
