{"id":221495,"date":"2016-02-23T04:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=221495"},"modified":"2016-02-23T04:00:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T18:00:11","slug":"nmti-burglarized-again-several-tools-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/nmti-burglarized-again-several-tools-stolen\/","title":{"rendered":"NMTI burglarized again, several tools stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_221496\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-221496\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/NMTI.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-221496\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-221496\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/NMTI-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"The Northern Marianas Trades Institute in Lower Base was burglarized again and several tools were stolen. The burglary was discovered yesterday. (Ferdie Dela Torre)\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-221496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Northern Marianas Trades Institute in Lower Base was burglarized again and several tools were stolen. The burglary was discovered yesterday. (Ferdie Dela Torre)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Northern Marianas Trades Institute in Lower Base was burglarized again and several tools were discovered stolen yesterday morning.<\/p>\n<p>NMTI director of external relations Vic Cepeda told Saipan Tribune that he and their maintenance worker found out the burglary when they reported to work yesterday before 7am.<\/p>\n<p>Cepeda said he noticed that the padlocks at the front gate and the sliding door of the building were cut.<\/p>\n<p>He said the doorknob on the storage room was pried open.<\/p>\n<p>Only the tools from the storage room were stolen.<\/p>\n<p>NMTI closes on regular days at 8:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>NMTI grants writer Ross S. Manglona said the burglary was disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>Manglona said as faculty staff arrived yesterday morning they learned that their campus was broken into and power tools were stolen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe ask the community\u2019s help in making sure these culprits find it difficult to sell the stolen equipment,\u201d Manglona said.<\/p>\n<p>The grants writer said the key focus is prevention for future occurrences.<\/p>\n<p>Manglona urged the general public to know that if they are approached with a great deal on power tools, they should question how the individual acquired such expensive tools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate the help from the community in this regard. Please remember that receiving stolen items is also punishable by law,\u201d Manglona said.<\/p>\n<p>Stolen were a Makita 4\u201d angle grinder, Black and Decker 4\u201d angle grinder, Makita hammer drill, Makita 3\/8\u201d drill, Dewalt screw 6mm, Makita 3\u201d belt sander, electric planer skill, Makita palm sander, electric sawzall, electric router, Makita chop saw, Rotary chipping gun 22 volts, four finishing hammers 8 oz, two brand new Perfect Aire window type A\/C unit 5000, and three butane canisters.<\/p>\n<p>There was no estimated value for the stolen items.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2012, NMTI was burglarized and thousands of dollars worth of tools and equipment were stolen. The case was never solved.<\/p>\n<p>The late businessman Anthony Pellegrino established the only trades school in the CNMI in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Marianas Trades Institute in Lower Base was burglarized again and several tools were&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":221496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[187,479,9864,50],"class_list":["post-221495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-lower-base","tag-nmti","tag-perfect-aire","tag-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221495","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=221495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}