Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho allowed Friday Rota Department of Community and Cultural Affairs resident director Josepha Barcinas Manglona to post a bail of $1,000 cash and $49,000 in unsecured bond.<\/p>\n
Saipan Tribune learned that Camacho granted Manglona\u2019s counsel Timothy Bellas\u2019 motion to modify the $50,000 cash bail the court had earlier imposed.<\/p>\n
Manglona\u2019s husband, a Rota police sergeant, served as her third-party custodian.<\/p>\n
Manglona was brought to the Rota courthouse on Friday afternoon to try to beat the 24-hour deadline to bring her to court, but the Rota courthouse was closed at the time.<\/p>\n
Manglona, who was arrested on Thursday, was supposed to be taken to the Department of Corrections on Saipan via late Friday afternoon flight.<\/p>\n
As a result, Camacho held a hearing on Saipan without Manglona\u2019s presence. Bellas and Chief Prosecutor Leonardo Rapadas appeared in court.<\/p>\n
An investigator said it was his first time to see a bail hearing in which a defendant was not present and that the affidavit of probable cause and proof of service of a defendant\u2019s arrest have not been even filed in court yet.<\/p>\n
Saipan Tribune, however, learned that Rapadas and Bellas waived Manglona\u2019s presence in court at the bail hearing.<\/p>\n
Sources said when Manglona arrived at DOC on Saipan at 5pm, she was subsequently released because the bail was already modified and the $1,000 cash was already posted.<\/p>\n
Sources said members of the CNMI Public Corruption and White Collar Crimes Task Force arrested the 53-year-old Manglona on Rota on Thursday for theft, conspiracy to commit theft by unlawful taking or disposition, and removal of government property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho allowed Friday Rota Department of Community and Cultural…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[446,3880,38,3928],"class_list":["post-199540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-doc","tag-josepha-barcinas-manglona","tag-saipan-tribune","tag-timothy-bellas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199540","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=199540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}