{"id":159269,"date":"2012-02-28T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/be65dffd-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2012-02-28T20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T20:36:00","slug":"be65e00e-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/be65e00e-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Bench warrant for rob suspect quashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Superior Court associate judge Joseph N. Camacho quashed yesterday the bench warrant he issued against the suspect in a robbery case where the victim, a 65-year-old masseur, was also beaten up.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant attorney general Eileen Wisor recommended quashing the warrant after suspect Joshua Basaliso voluntarily appeared in court with his court-appointed counsel, Antonio Atalig.<\/p>\n<p>Atalig, who substituted for attorney Douglas Cushnie, explained that they failed to attend Monday\u2019s change of plea hearing due to problems with the \u201cflow of information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Camacho set the new change of plea hearing for Thursday, March 1, at 1:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>Camacho issued the bench warrant on Monday after Basaliso and his lawyer failed to appear at the scheduled change of plea hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Basaliso inked a plea agreement with the government in October 2011. Under the agreement, he will plead guilty to assault and battery and the OAG will recommend a sentence of time served.<\/p>\n<p>Basaliso testified for the government in the trial of his cousin and co-defendant, Nestor C. Taitano. He admitted beating up and taking the wallet of Chinese national Guoxi Liang in San Antonio on April 2, 2011. Taitano was acquitted in the case. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superior Court associate judge Joseph N. Camacho quashed yesterday the bench warrant he issued against the suspect in a robbery case where the victim, a 65-year-old masseur, was also beaten up.<\/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-159269","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\/159269","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=159269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}