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Ex-Senate president Adriano arrested for not appearing in court
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Posted on Oct 29 2006
Police arrested last week on Tinian former Senate president Joaquin G. Adriano for not showing up at a court hearing in child support case.
Saipan Tribune learned that police served early last week a bench warrant issued by Superior Court Associate Judge Kenneth Govendo against Adriano.
Attorney Stephanie Flores, counsel for Adriano’s former wife, confirmed to Saipan Tribune on Friday that the former senator was indeed arrested.
Flores said Tinian police later released Adriano after posting $500 cash.
Govendo ordered Adriano to show cause why he should not be held in contempt for not showing at the hearing.
The show cause hearing was set last Friday afternoon.
Court records show that the former wife filed a divorce against Adriano and asked for child support for their two children.
Govendo directed Adriano to pay $750 in child support per month plus a payment of $400 a month to the mortgage of the house in Koblerville, Saipan that their children are staying.
The former wife then went to the court again in August 2006 after Adriano failed to pay child support. The former senator, however, failed to appear at the hearing, prompting Govendo to issue a bench warrant. The bench warrant, however, was issued only on Oct. 12.
In June 2003, then Department of Public Safety commissioner Edward Camacho sent detectives from DPS Saipan to Tinian to assist in the investigation of a report of accident involving Adriano’s then wife.
Mrs. Adriano was seriously injured after she reportedly fell from the rooftop of their two-story apartment on Tinian early morning of June 2003.
Police said the victim had fractured left cheekbone, multiple lacerations to the face, and fractured to the left elbow and left pelvis.
The complete investigation in that case was not disclosed to the media. But no charges were filed in that incident.
