Suspicion Mounts On OAG Meth Case; Governor Could Appoint Special Counsel If Conflict Arises

The Guam Police Department’s spokeswoman says that if the Office of the Attorney General attempts to influence any of the investigators in the meth case involving the OAG, those detectives have recourse to report the obstruction. However, any criminal report made to GPD involving attempted criminal conspiracy by any actor within the OAG would have to be forwarded to only one local outlet for criminal prosecution: the OAG.

“Any allegation of criminal conduct, including within the OAG, follows the same standard procedures as any other criminal complaint,” GPD spokeswoman Berlyn Savella said.

 

Ms Savella has not been able to provide any existing protocol or general order within GPD that could address such a significant conflict of interest as the potential obstruction of a police investigation by the very legal body that would decide whether to prosecute such a crime.

The governor’s office might have a solution to any such conflict, if one arises: the governor can appoint a special and independent counsel.

“The Supreme Court of Guam has laid out options for possible paths forward if the Attorney General cannot enforce Guam law due to a conflict of interest,” governor’s spokeswoman Krystal Paco-San Agustin said. “We believe that such a conflict exists where the Attorney General or his office are themselves involved in potential wrongdoing.”

 

“Should there be any allegations of interference or tampering or intimidation it needs to be identified at anytime of the investigation,” Ms. Savella said, when asked how the public can be assured that the alleged collusion and coverup in the infamous 2021 Red Jeep-Jerry’s Kitchen case would not repeat in this investigation, considering the involvement of a potentially conflicted party.

The questions of conflict arose following the discovery of nearly four grams of methamphetamine inside a secured floor and conference room of the OAG at the ITC Building. The matter surfaced publicly on February 6 in messages revealing the crime that went viral before GPD was called and arrived at the scene to take over the investigation. The illegal drugs, however, were found by OAG staff the day before.

 

“GPD responded along with providing a K-9 sweep,” Ms. Savella told the media at 3:50 p.m. February 6, hours after the viral message, and more than 24 hours after OAG staff first discovered the narcotics.

Part of the viral message alleged that the Attorney General, Douglas Moylan, “told investigators to stand down and not do anything.”

Neither Mr. Moylan nor Ms. Savella have answered whether this part of the message was true or false.

The fact that the drugs were found the day before police were called, then the reported delay in calling police to report the crime for several hours on the day of the viral message, has raised suspicion.

 

On February 7, two days after the initial discovery of the crime, Ms. Savella released the only investigation update thus far in the case. In part, the update states, “The preliminary investigation revealed that the narcotic was initially discovered on the floor of the conference room by a civilian employee on February 5, 2025, and brought it to their superior’s attention, and continued the scheduled meeting and forgot the narcotic in the room. On February 6, 2025 during another meeting, another civilian employee located the narcotic, who brought it to their superior, who in turn notified Criminal Investigators at the AG’s office and seized the contraband later notified GPD.”

The preliminary investigation findings rely on the assertion by two OAG employees that on February 5, both were aware a crime had occurred in their office, both failed to call the police, both left the drugs inside the conference room, both left the conference room, both left work, both went to bed that night, both went back to work the next day, and neither of them remembered that they encountered hard evidence of crime until a third person discovered the meth in that conference room.

The investigation is ongoing, according to Ms. Savella. No arrests have been made, and police have not publicly named any suspect.