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Judge denies Rota mayor’s son’s request to post bail
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Posted on Dec 23 2008
US District Court Judge Alex Munson has denied a motion for bail modification filed by Wilbur Vic Masga Inos, who is accused of two federal offenses on Rota.
Inos, the son of the Rota Mayor Joseph S. Inos, appeared with court-appointed counsel Robert Torres during a hearing yesterday. Assistant U.S. Attorney James Benedetto represented the U.S. government.
Torres urged the court to allow the defendant to post bail, presenting Lucinda Santos Inos, the defendant’s stepmother, as a witness. Torres argued that the defendant be released with the condition of a third party custodian and electronic monitoring.
The government opposed this, pushing for no bail.
Munson remanded the defendant back into the custody of the U.S. Marshal.
Inos was arrested on Dec. 18 and was charged with one count of Hobbs Act robbery and one count of use of a firearm in the commission of a violent crime.
Inos pleaded not guilty. The court accepted the plea and set the jury trial on Feb. 17.
The court found no conditions of release appropriate at this time and detained the defendant until further order.
A report of a third party custodian, Rossanna Villagomez-Aguon, chief U.S. Probation officer, was submitted to Munson yesterday.
The report said that Lucinda Santos Inos is an appropriate third-party custodian for the defendant, with the exception that, if electronic monitoring is required for his release, her telephone subscription should be cleared of any special features.
The report said that “the fact that she us currently employed by the Rota Mayor’s Office and that she may have to return to her job sometime in the course of the defendant’s release, may change her status as third-party custodian.”
The report also mentioned that the defendant is on release pending jury trial in a local criminal case in the Superior Court, where Mrs. Inos was appointed third party custodian.
“In light of the fact that the defendant’s brother also presents himself as alternate and temporary third-party custodian, this officer submits that such arrangement might be problematic given Mr. Inos’ report that he can serve only as custodian part-time,” the probation officer said in her report.
