{"id":253119,"date":"2017-05-26T06:06:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T20:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=253119"},"modified":"2017-05-26T06:06:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T20:06:51","slug":"castro-pleads-not-guilty-misusing-govt-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/castro-pleads-not-guilty-misusing-govt-vehicle\/","title":{"rendered":"Castro pleads not guilty of misusing govt vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corrections director Gregory Castro pleaded not guilty yesterday to the alleged misuse of a government vehicle. <\/p>\n<p>At his arraignment, Castro appeared pro se, without a lawyer. Assistant attorney general Jonathan L. Wilberscheid represented the government.<\/p>\n<p>The Superior Court had found Castro not qualified for a court-appointed counsel.<\/p>\n<p>Castro pleaded not guilty to three traffic charges, which carry a maximum penalty of three days in prison and $1,500 fine.<\/p>\n<p>Castro\u2019s first alleged offense is a violation of the law that government vehicles are only to be used for official government business. The other charge was for driving a tinted government vehicle. The last offense is for using a government vehicle without official markings.<\/p>\n<p>A bench trial is set for July 12, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Public Auditor caught Castro allegedly using a DOC vehicle, a 2015 Nissan XTerra, to go to the Marianas Country Club in Marpi in the morning of March 15, 2017, to play golf. He was given a citation and the vehicle was impounded.<\/p>\n<p>In an earlier interview, the 58-year-old Castro denied misusing the vehicle, saying he was doing business at the Marianas Country Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corrections director Gregory Castro pleaded not guilty yesterday to the alleged misuse of a government&#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":[56,14320,4106,2141],"class_list":["post-253119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-business-3","tag-gregory-castro","tag-marianas-country-club","tag-public-auditor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253119","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=253119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}