{"id":246597,"date":"2017-02-16T06:06:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T20:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=246597"},"modified":"2017-02-16T06:06:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T20:06:16","slug":"man-gets-72-hour-prison-term-beating-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/man-gets-72-hour-prison-term-beating-sister\/","title":{"rendered":"Man gets 72-hour prison term for beating up sister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 29-year-old man was sentenced to a 72-hour prison term for slapping and punching his sister in the face on Saipan. <\/p>\n<p>Andrew Pangelinan pleaded guilty on Tuesday to assault and battery involving domestic violence.<\/p>\n<p>Superior Court Presiding Judge Robert C. Naraja sentenced Pangelinan to one-year imprisonment, all suspended except for 72 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Pangelinan was given credit for 18 hours of time served. He was ordered to start serving his sentence on Feb. 24, 2017; he shall be released on Feb. 27.<\/p>\n<p>After his release, Pangelinan will be placed on supervised probation for a year. He was required to pay a $500 fine and $25 in court assessment fee, perform 100 hours of community service, and attend alcohol counseling and batterer\u2019s intervention. He is barred from alcoholic beverages and any illegal substances during his probation. <\/p>\n<p>Pangelinan slapped and punched his sister in the face on April 17, 2016. <\/p>\n<p>Assistant public defender Nancy Dominski served as counsel for Pangelinan. Assistant attorney general Betsy Weintraub appeared for the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 29-year-old man was sentenced to a 72-hour prison term for slapping and punching his&#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":[15617,8528,14555],"class_list":["post-246597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-andrew-pangelinan","tag-betsy-weintraub","tag-nancy-dominski"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246597","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=246597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}