{"id":255636,"date":"2017-07-04T06:06:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T20:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=255636"},"modified":"2017-07-04T06:06:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T20:06:47","slug":"woman-tied-garapan-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/woman-tied-garapan-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman tied up in Garapan robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shun Ji Piao, an employee of the Full House Gift Shop in Garapan, points to her head where an unidentified man armed with a knife hit her during the robbery on Sunday night. (Ferdie de la Torre)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A man armed with a knife went inside a gift shop along Garapan Street in Garapan, tied up a female employee, and ran off with over $1,200 last Sunday night. <\/p>\n

The victim, Shun Ji Piao, 51, managed to free herself and shout for help through the restroom window of the Full House Gift Shop. She was not injured. <\/p>\n

A man who lives near the shop called the police and checked the establishment.<\/p>\n

When police officers arrived, the suspect had already fled.<\/p>\n

Acting police spokesman Jason Tarkong said that police responded to Full House Gift Shop on Sunday at 8:07pm and learned from the victim that she had been tied up and the store had been robbed.<\/p>\n

The suspect was described as male, with a white T-shirt, a pair of dark pants, a pair of black shoes, wearing a hat, and with a beige cloth covering his face.<\/p>\n

Tarkong said police investigation showed that the suspect walked into the shop with a knife, tied up the victim with rope, covered her mouth with a cloth, and placed her on the floor behind the clothing rack.<\/p>\n

Tarkong said the suspect broke the cash register and took over $1,000.<\/p>\n

The victim managed to free herself and shouted for help. Neighbors heard the victim\u2019s screams and contacted the police.<\/p>\n

Piao told Saipan Tribune yesterday that the robbery happened at about 7:30pm and that four to five police officers arrived about 30 minutes later.<\/p>\n

Piao said the suspect entered the store about a minute after two Chinese female customers left the shop.<\/p>\n

Piao said she was in the cashier\u2019s area when the suspect arrived and told her not to move.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was very scared,\u201d the victim said, adding that she told the suspect not hurt her and that he could get anything.<\/p>\n

She said the robber tied her hands with a rope, covered her mouth with a cloth, brought her to the back area of the store, hit her head, and made her lie on the floor behind the clothing racks.<\/p>\n

Piao said the suspect then went to the cash register and broke it to get some money. <\/p>\n

Piao said the cash register contained only about over $200 cash, but the robber also took the $1,000 that she had placed inside her bag near the register.<\/p>\n

As the robber was looking for money in the register, Piao managed to untie herself and ran to the restroom in the back area of the shop.<\/p>\n

Piao locked herself inside the restroom, where she shouted through the window, calling people for help.<\/p>\n

She said a Bangladeshi man who lives in the area checked the back of the restroom and asked her what happened.<\/p>\n

After she told him about the robbery, the Bangladeshi man then called the police and went inside the shop to check on her.<\/p>\n

It was only then that Piao went out of the restroom and learned that the suspect had already left.<\/p>\n

The victim said police officers later arrived.<\/p>\n

Piao said she saw the suspect\u2019s face because the cloth that he used to cover his face fell while he was tying her up.<\/p>\n

Piao has been working at the shop for eight years now and that was the first time it was robbed.<\/p>\n

Tony Lim owns the shop.<\/p>\n

The CNMI Crime Stoppers Program is seeking the public\u2019s help for information about the suspect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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