{"id":15378,"date":"2012-05-07T03:11:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T03:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=15378"},"modified":"2012-05-07T03:11:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T03:11:44","slug":"detectives-not-abandoning-the-romero-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/detectives-not-abandoning-the-romero-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Detectives not abandoning the Romero investigation&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Ferdie de la Torre<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>Police detectives are not abandoning the investigation into the murder of bartender Emerita Relata Romero, according to the chief of the Department of Public Safety&#8217;s Criminal Investigation Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>Police Capt. Lawrence Camacho in an interview last week assured the public and the family of Romero that they are still working on the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not abandoned it,\u201d said Camacho, who refused to elaborate.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday marked the third month when Romero was last seen alive after boarding a car in Garapan. Her body was found by FBI agents at the northernmost building of the former La Fiesta Mall in San Roque in the afternoon of Feb. 7.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if the results of the FBI laboratory&#8217;s examination are already out, the CIB chief said he can&#8217;t comment as investigation is still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Former DPS commissioner Ramon Mafnas earlier disclosed that forensic examinations and assessments on all evidence are being performed on-island and off-island, saying the results can only strengthen the government&#8217;s case.<\/p>\n<p>Mafnas removed Camacho from CIB and assigned him to the DPS Training Section after the two had a confrontation during a briefing in the Romero case.<\/p>\n<p>Just days after Mafnas was put on administrative leave as DPS commissioner, acting DPS commissioner Ambrosio Ogumoro reinstated Camacho to CIB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ferdie de la Torre Reporter Police detectives are not abandoning the investigation into the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}