Former customs officer to be sentenced on drug-related charges

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A former Guam Customs and Quarantine Agency officer will be sentenced today in the District Court of Guam by Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood.

Jayvin Wyll Ueda Remoket, 33, admitted to conspiring with two others to distribute methamphetamine on Guam and alerting his alleged accomplices to a federal search and seizure of the contraband. He pleaded guilty in the District Court of Guam on May 15, according to court documents.

Remoket was a customs officer assigned to work with the contraband enforcement team. As part of his duties, he assisted with the execution of federal search warrants by federal and local law enforcement officers.

According to court documents, from June 1, 2013, to Jan. 16, 2014, Remoket agreed with Frederick A. Obak to provide information regarding law enforcement activities within his scope of work. He knew Obak was engaged in distributing methamphetamine in Guam.

Obak was sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment on Aug. 1.

On Jan. 8, U.S. Postal Inspector Jedidiah Hutchison intercepted a suspicious package in the U.S. mail containing 1,048 grams of meth.

The drugs were replaced with a sham substance resembling the drug and a tracking device was installed in the package. The package was placed back in the mail system for delivery to Amos S. Ueda, Remoket's uncle.

The following day, another suspicious package was intercepted by Hutchison. The second package contained 1,256 grams of methamphetamine. That meth was also replaced with a substance of similar appearance and a tracking device before it was placed back in the mail system and delivered on Jan. 13 to Thomas Kautz at a Barrigada post office postal box.

Kautz received the package from Washington state, then removed the customs declaration from the package and spray painted the package in an attempt to conceal the sender and recipient's address, according to court documents.

Obak ordered the package containing contraband from Washington state. Kautz received the package in exchange for an undetermined amount of cash. Obak assured Kautz that they would not be caught because they had an "insider" who would let them know if the packages were watched by law enforcement.

On Jan 16, law enforcement officials prepared for the controlled delivery of the Ueda package. Remoket attended the briefing at the Drug Enforcement Administration, as ordered by his superiors, relating to the search warrant and the delivery of the Ueda package. After the briefing, two law enforcement officers were teamed with Remoket in a vehicle in the vicinity of the StayWell building.

Remoket instructed one of the law enforcement officers to sit in the front seat of the vehicle so he could sit in the back seat and use his laptop computer.

While in the back seat, Remoket used his cellular phone to send text messages to Obak and Ueda telling them not to pick up the package and to delete messages on their phones.

Remoket's actions prevented the authorized seizing or securing of a person and interfered with the controlled delivery.

Remoket admitted he had purchased methamphetamine from Obak on prior occasions.

Remoket was adjudged guilty with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and giving notice of search warrant. A conviction of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine carries a maximum penalty of 20 years imprisonment, a $1 million fine and at least three years supervised release, while a conviction for giving notice of a search warrant carries a maximum penalty of five years, a $250,000 fine and supervised release of not more than three years.

Ueda was sentenced to 33 months imprisonment on July 27.

Kautz also entered into a plea agreement and was sentenced to 24 months on May 29, 2015.


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What is this?


[1 Points] manchasingpaper:

This guy admitted to trafficking and plead guilty?? Wow