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No bail for Rota Mayor’s son after 2 federal offenses
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Posted on Dec 21 2008
The U.S. District Court for the CNMI on Friday denied bail for Wilbur Vic Masga Inos, son of the Mayor of Rota, in connection with two counts of federal offense.
Inos, who was arrested by Police in August for an alleged robbery of a poker arcade on Rota, appeared in front of Chief Judge Alex Munson on Friday.
He pleaded not guilty.
But the court said Inos, 25, would remain in custody without bail.
He was earlier detained for robbery, assault with a dangerous weapon, and assault and posted $75,000 bail for temporary release.
Munson ordered the jury trial at 9am on Feb. 17 but pretrial motions should be filed not later than Jan. 5.
Court record showed that a video was played on Friday to show the actual robbery.
Government witness special agent John Quintanilla appeared along with defense witness Joe Masga Inos, brother of the defendant, who asked that the defendant be released on property bond and other conditions.
But the federal court argued again for “no bail.”
The court said the defendant was remanded into the custody of the U.S. Marshall.
On Dec. 18, the grand jury charged Inos for unlawfully commiting robbery by obtaining personal property from a person or in the presence of another against that person’s will by means of actual or threatened force, violence or fear of injury to his person, and thereby obstructed delayed or affected commerce or the movement of any article or commodity in commerce, thus, he committed a federal offense known as the Hobbs Act Robbery.
The jury also charged that Inos did knowingly carry or use a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence for which he may be prosecuted in a court of the U.S., or knowingly possessed a firearm in furtherance of the crime in violation of federal laws.
