{"id":20789,"date":"2012-06-01T03:13:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T03:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=20789"},"modified":"2012-06-01T03:13:10","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T03:13:10","slug":"ex-convict-in-shooting-case-pleads-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/ex-convict-in-shooting-case-pleads-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-convict in shooting case pleads guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Ferdie de la Torre<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>An ex-convict who was indicted on a charge of possession of a firearm and ammunition has pleaded guilty in district court.<\/p>\n<p>Justin A. Funkugub on Tuesday afternoon pleaded guilty to count 1 of the indictment charging him with felon in possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona set Funkugub&#8217;s sentencing for Sept. 5, 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney Ramon Quichocho is court-appointed counsel for Funkugub. Assistant attorney general Garth Backe appeared for the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p>Backe recently filed a motion to dismiss count 2 of the indictment charging the defendant with possession of a firearm with a removed, altered or obliterated serial number.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment also charged Funkugub with one count of felon in possession of ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. government noted that Funkugub was convicted on Sept. 21, 2000, of cattle killing.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 11, 2011, the defendant allegedly possessed a Smith and Wesson .38 caliber snub-nosed revolver. The gun&#8217;s manufacturer&#8217;s serial number had been removed, altered, or obliterated, a violation of U.S. Code, according to the indictment.<\/p>\n<p>That same date, Funkugub also allegedly possessed six Winchester Super-X .22 caliber bullets.<\/p>\n<p>The charges stemmed from an incident when the defendant allegedly assaulted a relative and fired a handgun in As Teo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ferdie de la Torre Reporter An ex-convict who was indicted on a charge of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20789","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}