{"id":22682,"date":"2012-06-27T08:17:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T08:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=22682"},"modified":"2012-06-27T08:17:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T08:17:43","slug":"man-pleads-guilty-to-lying-in-passport-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/man-pleads-guilty-to-lying-in-passport-application\/","title":{"rendered":"Man pleads guilty to lying in passport application"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A Tinian resident who is facing charges in federal court for filing a false statement to get a new passport pleaded guilty yesterday as part of a plea deal.<\/div>\n<p>Geoffrey Kim Cabrera pleaded guilty to the indictment charging him with false statement in an application for a passport. He will be sentenced on Oct. 5, 2012 at 9am.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona allowed Cabrera to remain free pending his sentencing.<\/p>\n<p>Robert T. Torres served as court-appointed counsel for Cabrera. Assistant U.S. attorney Ross Naughton prosecuted the case.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution has agreed to recommend to the court that Cabrera be given a sentence at the lowest end of the imprisonment range.<\/p>\n<p>According to the indictment, Cabrera applied for a passport on Feb. 12, 2010, during which he lied that his most recently issued passport had been lost at sea while aboard a small boat.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. government said the statement was false because Cabrera, in fact, had surrendered his passport to the CNMI Superior Court on Dec. 23, 2009, as a condition of his pretrial release in a 2009 criminal case.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2011, a Superior Court jury reached a not-guilty verdict on Cabrera for sexual abuse in the second degree.<\/p>\n<p>By Ferdie de la Torre<br \/>\nReporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tinian resident who is facing charges in federal court for filing a false statement&#8230;<\/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":[93,218,219,88],"class_list":["post-22682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-district-court","tag-geoffrey-kim-cabrera","tag-ross-naughton","tag-superior-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22682","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=22682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}