For the government\u2019s failure to file a charging document by the deadline, Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho dismissed yesterday the criminal charges against a man who allegedly received a stolen 30-inch flat screen TV.<\/p>\n
At a supposed preliminary hearing, Camacho dismissed without prejudice the case against 28-year-old Shane Joseph Aldan and ordered his release from the custody of the Department of Corrections.<\/p>\n
Dismissed without prejudice means the Office of the Attorney General can re-file the case in the future.<\/p>\n
Camacho dismissed the case because the OAG failed to follow the rules that require the government to file the charging information within 10 days.<\/p>\n
Present in court were Aldan and his counsel, assistant public defender Michael Sato. Assistant attorney general Clayton Graef appeared for the government.<\/p>\n
Department of Public Safety police officers were also in court and ready to testify.<\/p>\n
Police recently arrested Aldan for conspiracy and theft, and Michael Jesse Aguon Manalo, 21, for theft.<\/p>\n
Aldan failed to post a $10,000 cash bail so his preliminary hearing was supposedly set yesterday.<\/p>\n
Police detective Catherine B. Pangelinan stated in her report that it was Manalo\u2019s mother herself who called police last Dec. 1 to disclose that her son stole his grandmother\u2019s TV.<\/p>\n
Pangelinan said Manalo admitted that he took the TV from the room that belongs to his grandmother and gave it to Aldan in exchange for methamphetamine or \u201cice.\u201d<\/p>\n
The grandmother has been renting the TV from Dial Rent-To-Own. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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