{"id":22848,"date":"2012-06-29T02:00:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T02:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=22848"},"modified":"2012-06-29T02:00:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T02:00:33","slug":"masked-man-stages-daylight-robbery-at-poker-arcade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/masked-man-stages-daylight-robbery-at-poker-arcade\/","title":{"rendered":"Masked man stages daylight robbery at poker arcade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>An unidentified man armed with a machete staged a daylight robbery at a poker arcade in As Lito yesterday. A surveillance camera caught the incident.<\/div>\n<p>No one was reported hurt but the suspect managed to run off with cash from MGM Poker, according to the Department of Public Safety.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesman Jason Tarkong described the suspect as about 5&#8217;10\u201d to 6&#8217;0\u201d tall, in his mid-20s to early 30s, and was wearing a black hooded jacket, blue jeans, white gloves, sunglasses, and had a red bandanna covering his face.<\/p>\n<p>Police investigation showed that the suspect entered MGM Poker at 9:24am, barged into the cashier&#8217;s booth, threatened the 20-year-old female cashier with a machete, and demanded money.<\/p>\n<p>After getting the cash, the robber went outside, ran south, and disappeared behind the building where the poker arcade is located.<\/p>\n<p>Tarkong said police officers reviewed the incident as recorded on the video surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>Tarkong said Crime Stoppers is seeking the public&#8217;s help for information on the robbery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDPS and Crime Stoppers need your help. Please contact the Crime Stoppers hotline at 234-7272 should you want to remain anonymous or use our website at www.nmicrimestoppers.net. Crime Stoppers pays up to $1,000 for any information leading to an arrest,\u201d said Tarkong, who is also the Crime Stoppers coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2009, an alert security guard and a female cashier foiled two masked men&#8217;s attempt to rob the same MGM Poker. The suspects were not arrested.<\/p>\n<p>When the security guard at MGM saw masked men outside the establishment, he immediately closed the main door. One suspect, armed with a rifle, attempted to open the door by shaking the door handle. The cashier immediately called the police.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects fled on foot to the north side of the building.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first reported robbery at a poker establishment in the CNMI this year.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, three poker arcades on Saipan were reportedly robbed. Of the three cases, police arrested a suspect in one incident. The robber was subsequently convicted.<\/p>\n<p>Last April, a female cashier of Cery Store in Kannat Tabla was injured when three masked persons robbed the establishment. The suspects were not arrested.<\/p>\n<p>By Ferdie de la Torre<br \/>\nReporter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unidentified man armed with a machete staged a daylight robbery at a poker arcade&#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":[26,286,287,215],"class_list":["post-22848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-cnmi","tag-crime-stoppers","tag-jason-tarkong","tag-public-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22848","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=22848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}