Justices require filing of hard copy of all court docs
Since last Wednesday, the CNMI Judiciary’s electronic access and communications have been offline as a result of IT&E’s network outage. Because of the problem, Chief Justice Alexandro C. Castro and...
View Article‘Internet disruption makes legal research difficult’
Lawyers, particularly immigration lawyers and law offices’ staff, are greatly affected by IT&E’s network outage. A staff at a law firm specializing in immigration matters told Saipan Tribune...
View ArticleCommunity Briefs – August 6, 2015
SCS postpones opening to Aug. 17 Saipan Community School has postponed the opening of school year 2015-2016 to Aug. 17 because of the damage incurred by the Susupe school from the onslaught of Typhoon...
View ArticleFitial pays $6K fine, $100 court assessment fee
Former governor Benigno R. Fitial paid yesterday the $6,000 fine and $100 court assessment fee that the Superior Court imposed on him in his criminal conviction. Fitial, through counsel Stephen...
View ArticleJudiciary awarded $54K grants
Joseph M. Diego, the USDA Area II director from Guam, recently announced the award of two grants to the CNMI Judiciary. The larger of the two grant awards, an Economic Impact Grant for $34,000, will...
View ArticleWoman pleads guilty to ‘ice’ possession
Xiu Hui Wang, a 37-year-old woman who was one of four Chinese nationals arrested by the CNMI Drug Enforcement Task Force last May for allegedly selling methamphetamine or “ice” on Saipan, has pleaded...
View ArticleBuckingham suspended from law practice in NMI
The CNMI Supreme Court has suspended former attorney general Edward T. Buckingham from the practice of law in the Commonwealth for his conviction on public corruption charges last year. The suspension...
View ArticleMan allegedly threatens another with machete
A man allegedly swung a machete at the former boyfriend of his mother who came to their house in Chalan Kanoa to get his bicycle on Friday afternoon. Ethen D. Sanchez, 18, also allegedly cut the tires...
View ArticleInsurance firm denies liability in chair collapse that injured guest
An insurance company has denied any liability or obligation to a company that sold to Saipan Laulau Development Inc. a white plastic chair that allegedly collapsed under the weight of a hotel guest....
View ArticleAmended order charges Langu with sex assault in first degree
Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho yesterday amended his order to find probable cause to charge George Norris Langu Jr., 18, with sexual assault in the first degree for allegedly raping...
View ArticleIntoxicated teen allegedly punches sister
An allegedly intoxicated teenager reportedly punched his sister twice in the face for stopping him from arguing with their other brother during a drinking session at their house in As Lito on Wednesday...
View ArticleMondala pleads not guilty to 41 corruption charges
Former Office of Aging director Rose DLG. Mondala entered a not guilty plea yesterday to allegations that she used the office’s funds and materials for the needs of the Covenant Party during the 2009...
View ArticleConvicted sex offender arrested for another sex abuse of a minor
Price Ekon Shoiter, a 68-year-old registered sex offender, was arrested again on Sunday for allegedly sexually abusing a 7-year-old girl in Dandan. Shoiter was taken to Superior Court yesterday on...
View Article‘Lujan is father-figure to Hillbroom’
Junior Larry Hillbroom wants his former counsel, Guam lawyer David J. Lujan, to be disqualified from his legal malpractice action against the attorney for alleged conflict of interest. Lujan, however,...
View ArticleJudge recuses self from lawyer’s disbarment case
U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona has recused herself from hearing Stephen C. Woodruff’s request for the federal court to decline imposing on him the local courts’ order...
View ArticleMan, 22, is nabbed for alleged sex with 14-year-old girlfriend
Police arrested early Saturday morning a 22-year-old man who allegedly had sex with his 14-year-old girlfriend he just recently met through Facebook. Glenn Anthony Mafnas Ruben Jr. was taken to...
View Article‘OAG intends to pursue trial vs former Rota mayor’
The Office of the Attorney General moved to dismiss the charges of theft against former Rota mayor Melchor A. Mendiola and four other former Rota municipal employees because it intends to proceed...
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Ex-CPA police chief pleads guilty
Former Commonwealth Ports Authority police chief Jordan Kosam hugs a family member outside the courtroom after a hearing yesterday afternoon in Superior Court. Kosam pleaded guilty to one count of...
View ArticleWoman arrested for allegedly stealing brother’s check
Police arrested last week a woman who allegedly used a check that was left in a rental car that was being used by her brother, who was then vacationing in Guam. Eloise Margaret Jones Castro, 31, was...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: Ogumoro found guilty of 7 corruption charges
Superior Court Associate Judge David A. Wiseman announced today, Tuesday, his verdict finding former Department of Public Safety deputy commissioner Ambrosio T. Ogumoro guilty of seven of nine...
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