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Man gets 3 days in prison for choking son, engaging in fight
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Posted on Nov 12 2008
The Superior Court handed down a three-day prison term on a man who choked his minor son and engaged in a fight with another man during the Liberation Day Parade.
Associate Judge Kenneth Govendo sentenced Glenn Taman Rios to one year in jail, all suspended except for three days, for assault and battery.
Govendo sentenced the 31-year-old Rios to six months in prison, all suspended except for three days, for disturbing the peace in the other case.
The judge said the sentences in the two cases shall run concurrently. He also gave the defendant credit for the three days he has already served in jail. This means Rios would no longer serve jail time as he has already served three days in prison.
Govendo placed the defendant on 18 months of probation and required him to pay a $200 fine, $25 court assessment fee, plus a probation fee.
The judge ordered Rios to perform 50 hours of community work service and pay restitution.
During the probationary period, the defendant will be prohibited from possessing and consuming alcoholic beverages.
Rios signed a plea agreement. He pleaded guilty to assault and battery in one case and to disturbing the peace in the other case.
The agreement stated that on May 2, 2008, Rios squeezed his teenaged son’s forearm and choked him.
On July 4, 2006, Rios and another man were arrested for having a fistfight while watching the Liberation Day Parade along Beach Road in Garapan. As a result of the fight, the glass window at JJ Managaha Store was damaged.
Last January, Rios was also arrested when he allegedly pushed her wife to a concrete wall at their residence in Tanapag.
The wife suffered a three-inch long laceration in the forehead. She also had bruises and swollen lips, police said.
