A Chinese national has been sentenced to 55 months in prison for trafficking methamphetamine from California to Saipan.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands on Aug. 9 announced that Yang Liang was sentenced on the previous day by Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona of the District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands, on a charge of conspiracy to possess methamphetamine with intent to distribute.
The judge also ordered Yang to report to local immigration officials for deportation proceedings after completing his 55-month prison term.
“Methamphetamine is a poison in our communities,” Shawn N. Anderson, U.S. attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, said in a statement….