{"id":256710,"date":"2017-07-21T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T20:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=256710"},"modified":"2017-07-21T06:00:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T20:00:45","slug":"ex-usps-officer-mail-theft-case-inks-plea-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/ex-usps-officer-mail-theft-case-inks-plea-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-USPS officer in mail theft case inks plea deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former U.S. Postal Service officer who is accused of stealing a package from the Chalan Kanoa Post Office has entered a plea agreement with the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant U.S. attorney James J. Benedetto, counsel for the U.S. government, requested the U.S. District Court for the NMI on Wednesday to schedule the case against Mark Tyquiengco for a change of plea hearing on Aug. 10, 2017. <\/p>\n<p>The plea agreement was sealed.<\/p>\n<p>The federal court released Tyquiengco on his own recognizance and recently allowed him to travel to Guam.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment charged him with mail theft and theft of mail. <\/p>\n<p>The court set the trial for Aug. 15, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>According to the indictment, Tyquiengco stole a package from a postal box at the Chalan Kanoa Post Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former U.S. Postal Service officer who is accused of stealing a package from the&#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":[93,17065,257,1390],"class_list":["post-256710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-district-court","tag-mark-tyquiengco","tag-nmi","tag-postal-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256710","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=256710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}