Court imposes $25K bail on men who stole vacuum cleaners

The Superior Court has imposed separate $25,000 cash bails on two men accused of stealing vacuum cleaners and a humidifier.

Last week, Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph Camacho imposed separate $25,000 cash bails on Joseph Lee and Gyles Ruluked, two men accused of stealing vacuum cleaners and a humidifier from the Marianas Eye Institute.

Lee, 26, and Ruluked, 39, are both facing burglary and theft charges.

After appearing before Camacho last week for a bail hearing, they were remanded back to Department of Corrections’ custody.

The two are scheduled to appear in court today for a preliminary hearing while their arraignments are set for June.

According to court documents, last April 28, the Department of Public Safety received a call from the Marianas Eye Institute reporting a burglary and theft incident.

At the scene, responding officers observed that the clinic’s container was broken into, and two vacuum cleaners and a humidifier were reported stolen.

Surveillance footage identified Lee as a suspect and on April 29, Superior Court Associate Judge Teresa Kim-Tenorio signed off on an arrest warrant for Lee.

On May 2, DPS canine officers Jesse Deleon Guerrero and Giovanni Taitingfong spotted Lee standing next to a Kia Seltos on a northbound lane of a road behind Saipan Computer Services in Garapan and served him the arrest warrant.

The officers showed Lee the security camera footage of him and another individual breaking into Marianas Eye’s container.

According to court documents, Lee himself identified Ruluked as the second person in the footage. Lee also told police that a third individual, Glarisha Mabel, dropped him and Ruluked off on the unpaved road near Marianas Eye on the day the burglary and theft occurred.

In a follow-up operation on May 6, detectives Daniel Kaipat and Vincent Rangamar met with Mabel near the old Japanese jail in Garapan.

Mabel told police that on the day of the incident, Lee told her that they had a mission and left. She said Lee returned 30 minutes later with Ruluked.

Mabel added when the pair came back, she saw Lee put vacuum cleaners in the trunk of the car and a humidifier in the backseat.