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Attao resigns as chief parole officer
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Posted on Dec 05 2005
Vincent Sablan Attao resigned on Friday as chief parole officer, a position that he had held over the past six years and 10 months, the Saipan Tribune learned yesterday.
Sources at the Board of Parole disclosed that politics was likely behind Attao’s resignation.
Attao reportedly supported the Babauta administration during the November elections.
Attao had been in the BOP for over 11 years. His two-year contract as chief parole officer will expire in February 2006, sources said.
Some BOP staffers said Attao and his family are planning to move to the U.S. mainland.
BOP chairman Michael H. San Nicolas, in a memorandum issued on Thursday, designated Parole Officer II Joseph Tenorio Guerrero as acting chief parole officer until the board appoints one to the position.
Guerrero, in a telephone interview with the Saipan Tribune, said the position is not new to him because he had served as acting chief parole officer many times whenever Attao went off island for official business.
“I am treating everybody fairly. We just go and work here…perform our functions in dealing with the parolees,” said Guerrero, who has been in the BOP for 10 years now.
