The Superior Court issued a bench warrant yesterday against a taxi operator who left the CNMI despite a scheduled jury trial in his traffic case in connection with a fatal vehicular accident in San Roque.<\/p>\n
Associate Judge David A. Wiseman commanded Department of Public Safety Commissioner Ernest Mark Williams to arrest Ruhul Amin and bring him to court \u201cwithout unnecessary delay.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wiseman issued the bench warrant after Amin, a Bangladeshi, failed to appear during the scheduled jury trial. The judge imposed a $5,000 cash bail.<\/p>\n
During a status conference on April 11, 2006, the Public Defender\u2019s Office informed the court that its client, Amin, had left the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n
Wiseman then ordered that the April 24 trial date as previously set would continue that day.<\/p>\n
But yesterday, only assistant public defender Adam Hardwicke and Attorney General\u2019s Office\u2019s legal intern John Aguon appeared in court.<\/p>\n
Amin was charged with failure to stop a vehicle at the scene of the accident, not giving his identification cards and the registration number of vehicle, and not rendering reasonable assistance to the victims.<\/p>\n
Police said a 14-year-old old altar boy died while his 15-year-old male companion sustained injuries after a taxicab driven by Amin hit them while they were crossing Middle Road near Shell Gasoline Station in San Roque at 7pm on April 30, 2005.<\/p>\n
Amin continued driving his taxicab to his house in Garapan. He later surrendered to the police.<\/p>\n
Traffic investigators said there was pedestrian error on the part of the victims but police still issued traffic citations against the taxicab operator.<\/p>\n
The parents of the boy who died filed a civil lawsuit in federal court against Amin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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