{"id":183429,"date":"2014-10-31T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=183429"},"modified":"2014-10-31T04:00:13","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T18:00:13","slug":"probable-cause-found-file-charges-vs-sex-offender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/probable-cause-found-file-charges-vs-sex-offender\/","title":{"rendered":"Probable cause is found to file charges vs sex offender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho has found probable cause to file five charges against Jose Albert Santos, a registered sex offender who was arrested recently for allegedly sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy since last month.<\/p>\n<p>At a preliminary hearing Wednesday afternoon, Camacho determined that there\u2019s probable cause to believe that the 53-year-old Santos may have committed three counts of sexual abuse of a minor in the second degree and two counts of disturbing the peace.<\/p>\n<p>However, he found no probable cause for two counts of sexual assault in the first degree, saying these charges are contained in the two counts of sexual abuse of a minor in the second degree. He dismissed these two charges without prejudice.<\/p>\n<p>Dismissed without prejudice means the prosecution can re-file the charges in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Santos will be arraigned on Nov. 3. He was remanded into the custody of the Department of Corrections.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant attorney general Margo Brown-Badawy argued for the government. Assistant public defender Benjamin Petersburg served as counsel for Santos.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the alleged victim claimed that Santos began sexually abusing him early this year when he went to the suspect\u2019s house to get a stick of cigarette.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho has found probable cause to file five charges&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183429","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}