Guam – Inginginya yabakhenkethi baseTshayina bavavanya ithuba lokumangala ngesiganeko esenzeka eSaipan, betyhola ucalucalulo ngokobuhlanga, apho iiarhente zokunyanzeliswa kweziyobisi kunye namagosa ecustosholo agqogqa abakhenkethi abangama-147 baseTshayina berhanelwa ngamachiza.
Omnye umkhweli ubhala athi amagosa akazange achaze isizathu sokuba akhangelwe okanye aphendule imibuzo engqalileyo ngalo mba. Umntu ongachazwanga ngagama wongeza ukuba iarhente imfekethe, kwaye kule nkqubo, wabamba amalungu akhe angasese kathathu. Ubanga ukuba abanye kwinqwelomoya ye-Shanghai Airlines bakhalaza ukuba ngexesha lokukhangela, iiarhente zafaka izandla phakathi kwempahla yangaphantsi kunye nomzimba. Ummeli weDEA uTony Marquez uthi ucela uxolo ngayo nayiphi na inkxamleko enokuthi yenziwe kukhangelo, kodwa uxinzelelo luqhutywe ngokufanelekileyo kwaye aluzange, nangayiphi na indlela, luqhutywe lucalucalulo.
UMarquez wongeza ukuba akukho ziyobisi zifunyenwe kuye nawuphi na umkhweli, kodwa izinto ezingekho mthethweni zathinjwa. Uthi i-DEA iya kuqhubeka nokusebenzisa igunya layo ukuthintela ukuthengiswa kweziyobisi eGuam kunye nakwi-Commonwealth yeziqithi zaseMantla eMariana.
INTO ONOKUYITHATHA KWELI NQAKU:
- He says the DEA will continue to exercise its authority to prevent drug trafficking in both Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana islands.
- A host of Chinese tourists are weighing the prospect of filing a lawsuit over an incident in Saipan, alleging racial discrimination, where drug enforcement agents and customs officers searched 147 Chinese tourists under suspicion of drugs.
- DEA resident agent Tony Marquez says he apologizes for any inconvenience the searches may have caused, but stresses they were conducted properly and were not, in any way, racially motivated.
