{"id":178224,"date":"2014-09-03T04:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=178224"},"modified":"2014-09-03T04:00:44","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T18:00:44","slug":"suspected-vandals-lit-chamolinian-utt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/suspected-vandals-lit-chamolinian-utt\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected vandals lit up Chamolinian Utt"},"content":{"rendered":"

A drooping roof is all that remains over a pavilion\u2019s largely exposed and darkly charred frame at the Chamolinian Cultural Village in Garapan, as suspected vandals lit it on fire Labor Day morning, according to Carolinian Affairs Office director Joe Limes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey burned it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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A hut was lit on fire by suspected vandals last Sunday at the Chamolinian Cultural Village in Garapan. (Dennis B. Chan)<\/figcaption><\/figure>Limes gathered from police that the incident occurred at 12:45am Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

He said he has not has been notified of any leads in the incident, adding that the Chamolinian Utt was only about 1 month old.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m still waiting for the police,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to Limes, it is not the first time vandals have cause grief in the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast month, they put water in the forklift. They opened the gas tank and put water inside,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The prank, he said, forced a staff member to overhaul the forklift\u2019s tank.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The staff member] was really upset,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Then two nights ago, Limes said, vandals hit again, this time burning the demonstrator and artist\u2019s hut in the cultural village.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know what\u2019s their problem. If they have anything they don\u2019t agree [with] or they dislike what we are doing here for our culture, please come by and share [it] with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

He asked the community for their help, saying, \u201cThis is our village, our cultural village that we would like to promote our cultures.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality enforcement officer Benjamin Norita, the huts currently under construction in the area were permitted by his department. He said they were expected to be all completed in October.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomeone that\u2019s smart enough did this when the police we\u2019re not around here,\u201d he said of the fact that it was done on Labor Day.<\/p>\n

He expressed disappointment over the incident and said that if such acts were the case, he\u2019d think someone would need to oversee the area at night.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want to put DPS on the spotlight but this is a ridiculous act,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A drooping roof is all that remains over a pavilion\u2019s largely exposed and darkly charred…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":178229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[709,35],"class_list":["post-178224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-carolinian-affairs-office","tag-dps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178224","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}