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4 persons face theft charges
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Posted on Nov 22 2004
The Attorney General’s Office yesterday charged four persons with theft in three separate cases at the Superior Court.
In one of the cases, CNMI chief prosecutor lodged conspiracy and theft by extortion charges against Bienvenido Patawaran Jr., 30, and Jennifer Patawaran, 25, of Chinatown.
Hutton said the Patawarans obtained another’s property sometime from Aug. 31 to Oct. 14 by threatening one Mark A. Wallace of criminal prosecution for the latter’s debt.
In doing this, Hutton said the Patawarans extracted approximately 10 times the amount of money originally claimed by them from Wallace, in exchange for abstaining from filing criminal charges against the debtor.
In another case, the prosecutor charged Mario F.N. Corpus, 43, of Susupe, with theft by deception.
Corpus, an official of a Filipino organization, allegedly solicited some $750 to purchase basketball uniforms and to pay for the registration in a basketball league organized by the United Filipino Organization. Hutton said Corpus never turned over the money to UFO.
Hutton charged Lilia Bisda David, 50, of Kannat Tabla, with theft in a separate case.
David allegedly stole some $1,836.50 in cash from Orchid’s Poker in Garapan last Sept. 26.
