BREAKING NEWS: I Love Saipan sues 4 alleged prolific shoplifters
Blaming the government’s alleged failure to prosecute, the owner of I Love Saipan is suing four who are reportedly prolific shoplifters and have been stealing items and harassing store employees.
AC Pacific LLC, which does business as Star Sands Plaza and is more popularly known as I Love Saipan, is asking the Superior Court to issue a temporary restraining order and an injunctive relief to bar Aurelio Ray, Jerry Ramon, Abigail Duenas, and Donavin Chargualaf from entering its stores on Saipan.
AC Pacific, through counsel Mark A. Scoggins, asked the court to prevent Ray, Ramon, Duenas, and Chargualaf from coming within 100 feet of I Love Saipan or any of AC Pacific’s stores.
AC Pacific asked the court to restrain the four from harassing its employees or customers and wants the TRO converted to a permanent injunction.
The company also wants the four held liable to pay AC Pacific damages for their harm to the company’s business.
Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho set a status conference hearing on Dec. 21, 2017.
According to Scoggins, on multiple occasions over the last year, the four have entered AC Pacific stores, taken items, and left the premises without paying.
Scoggins said AC Pacific has notified the Department of Public Safety after each incident and reported the thefts and, each time, AC Pacific has been given “blue cards” and police report numbers and the names of the defendants, but none of them has ever been prosecuted.
Scoggins said that despite the repeated notification of law enforcement, the four continue shoplifting from the stores. They would brazenly enter AC Pacific stores to steal and, when confronted, run out, placing employees and customers at risk of harm of injury.
“Perhaps due to the fact that they have never been prosecuted, defendants have recently begun taunting and harassing AC Pacific staff, and generally behave as if they can act with impunity at AC Pacific facilities,” Scoggins said.
No surprise here…. DPS selectively investigates….
Not surprised about no prosecution. Totally disgraceful the way local cops handle local criminals. Same goes for the courts. Do this in a civilized place and arrests are made no doubt about it. Just a perfect example of corruption at work.
All I see is DPS’s failure to enforce the law I guess this is the normal thing here in Saipan the commissioner chose’s what crimes to enforce and when to enforce them.
Just like the vehicle license plates being on the front of vehicles. I guess it really depends on how the commissioner is feeling.
It also reverts back to the “elected AG” (got get rid of this one when the time comes)
The worthless DPS that cannot find their own “matching black socks”. ALL a bunch of failures that mirror the elected (most same families) Failures!
Just the culture of the island as a whole. The CCC is the same way. They could never be bothered to investigate real crimes in the casino, but they will over regulate petty stuff in a heartbeat, like shutting a slot machine down for 2 weeks just because a button is broken.
Sadly, not the first time crime victims who have identified theives by name, somtimes on video, often with exact location of where thief resides and yet they are left with a card and number in hand and no action. It is a good thing that I LOVE SAIPAN is trying to stop it in another way.
why aren’t they being given citations or being arrested? Are they related to a political figure? I don’t know.