A 56-year-old retired Commonwealth Utilities Corp. power plant operator was arrested on Tuesday afternoon in Dandan for allegedly raping an 18-year-old student in a jungle area at the Saipan airport. <\/p>\n
Police served an arrest warrant to John Santos Aldan for sexual assault in the first degree, assault and battery, and disturbing the peace.<\/p>\n
Aldan is currently a maintenance worker at a private company. <\/p>\n
At a hearing Wednesday, Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho retained the $100,000 cash bail that was originally set by Associate Judge Teresa Kim-Tenorio.<\/p>\n
Preliminary hearing will be on Feb. 16 at 1:30pm.<\/p>\n
Assistant public defender Tillman Clark was appointed as counsel for the defendant. Assistant attorney general Shannon Foley appeared for the government.<\/p>\n
Police Detective Therese S. Kintoki stated in her report that a police officer responded to Children\u2019s Park in Dandan on Monday afternoon after a woman reported that her 18-year-old daughter was raped.<\/p>\n
The alleged victim told police that Aldan picked her up from school that day at 5:30pm. Instead of taking the usual route through Finasisu and As Lito roads, Aldan drove her to a jungle area by the ARFF building at the Francisco C. Ada-Saipan International Airport.<\/p>\n
The teenager said she struggled but Aldan grabbed her neck and raped her inside his red Toyota T 100 pickup truck.<\/p>\n
She later told her mother about the incident. Her mother then called the police.<\/p>\n
The teenager disclosed that last January, Aldan also brought her to the same jungle area, but he did not touch her after seeing her texting her mother. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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