Police Briefs
Police net fugitive
A 29-year-old Bangladeshi fugitive was captured by patrol officers Wednesday night and brought back to the detention center.
Mohammed Mamun Miah, an illegal alien, has now been reverted to the custody of the immigration after he fled the detention facility.
Mr. Miah was discovered by authorities loitering around the Pacific Islands Club area the night he was captured.
Hand-biting suspect
A Hyatt Regency Saipan employee suffered hand swelling and minor injuries when a Chinese female, identified as San Nu Chen, allegedly bit her hand Wednesday night, in a desperate move to escape an encounter with the establishment’s security guard.
Koban officers arrested the 27-year-old suspect, who tried to evade from being asked by the Hyatt attendant what she and another Chinese female companion were doing at the hotel.
According to a Department of Public Safety report, a security guard on duty was called for assistance when the Chinese woman refused to show her ID upon request by the hotel employee.
When the suspect saw the security guard approaching, she tried to flee from the Hyatt employee who reportedly tried to hold her back.
Ms. Chen has been arrested for charges of assault and battery, and trespassing.
Musical instrument stolen
A Kamaka six-string ukulele tenor with casing worth $695 has been reported stolen from the Public School System Central Office in Nauru Building.
A PSS employee discovered the valuable item missing from in between her cabinets where she last remembered to have placed it before she went for a an off-island vacation last Dec. 22, 2000.
Last January 12, 2001, she said that she had routed a memorandum informing her immediate supervisor of the missing objects.
The musical instrument is tagged with a government property label. The case has been forwarded to the Criminal Investigation Bureau.