{"id":254080,"date":"2017-06-09T06:06:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T20:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=254080"},"modified":"2017-06-09T06:06:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T20:06:11","slug":"ex-usps-officer-pleads-not-guilty-to-mail-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/ex-usps-officer-pleads-not-guilty-to-mail-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-USPS officer pleads not guilty to mail theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former U.S. Postal Service officer appeared in federal court yesterday and pleaded not guilty to charges that he stole a package from the Chalan Kanoa Post Office last March 6. <\/p>\n<p>Mark Tyquiengco appeared with counsel, Robert T. Torres. He pleaded not guilty to the indictment charging him with mail theft and theft of mail by a postal service employee.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Court for the NMI Magistrate Judge Heather Kennedy set the jury trial for Aug. 15, 2017. <\/p>\n<p>Kennedy released the defendant on his own recognizance.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant U.S. attorney James Benedetto appeared for the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p>According to the indictment, Tyquiengco stole a package addressed to a person at his postal office box.<\/p>\n<p>Tyquiengco, then being a U.S. Postal Service officer or employee, unlawfully embezzled the package intended to be conveyed by mail, addressed to the person at his postal office box, from the Chalan Kanoa Post Office.<\/p>\n<p>A source said a U.S. Army veteran owned the package. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former U.S. Postal Service officer appeared in federal court yesterday and pleaded not guilty&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[93,12631,17065,1390],"class_list":["post-254080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-district-court","tag-james-benedetto","tag-mark-tyquiengco","tag-postal-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254080","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\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}