A jury trial began yesterday in the Superior Court of George Lieto Jr., a teacher accused with another man of burglarizing a store\u2019s generator room and stealing copper wire.<\/p>\n
The prosecution called to the witness stand three witnesses\u2014patrol officer David Rabauliman, the manager of New Kagman Market, and the owner of a surveillance camera.<\/p>\n
The trial will resume today, Tuesday, at 8:30am. Associate Judge David A. Wiseman is presiding over the trial.<\/p>\n
Assistant attorneys general Graef Clayton and Chester Hinds are prosecuting the case. Attorney Matthew Holley is court-appointed counsel for Lieto.<\/p>\n
Lieto is on trial for one count each of burglary and theft. Lieto\u2019s co-defendant, Terwik A. Ludwig, pleaded guilty last February and was slapped with a three-year prison term.<\/p>\n
Police detective Catherine B. Pangelinan stated in her report that while patrol officer Rabauliman was conducting a routine patrol along Cha Cha Road in Kagman on Oct. 26, 2014 at 9:47am, he spotted Lieto and Ludwig loading copper wire into a car\u2019s trunk next to the generator room of New Kagman Market.<\/p>\n
As Rabauliman made a turn into New Kagman Market, he saw Lieto enter the driver\u2019s side of a Mazda 3 car, while Terwik got into the vehicle\u2019s rear passenger side.<\/p>\n
As the car was exiting the parking lot, Rabauliman blocked the exit. The officer got out of his patrol car and approached Lieto.<\/p>\n
While Rabauliman was talking with Lieto, Terwik got down and ran into a jungle south of Kagman Laundry located behind New Kagman Market.<\/p>\n
The officer found in the car\u2019s trunk, two large rolls and two small roll bundles of copper wire that were stolen from the generator room of New Kagman Market.<\/p>\n
Lieto was then arrested.<\/p>\n
According to the storeowner, the stolen copper wire were back-up wires for the generator.<\/p>\n
Pangelinan said they recovered the rolled wires with estimated total value of $1,662.57.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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