{"id":264780,"date":"2017-11-20T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T20:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=264780"},"modified":"2017-11-20T06:00:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T20:00:59","slug":"oag-obtains-warrant-mcdonnells-extradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/oag-obtains-warrant-mcdonnells-extradition\/","title":{"rendered":"OAG obtains warrant for McDonnell\u2019s extradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_264785\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-264785\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/judge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" class=\"size-full wp-image-264785\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-264785\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camacho<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Office of the Attorney General has been able to obtain from the governor of Illinois a copy of a warrant for the extradition of Sean P. McDonnell, a 39-year-old man who faces charges of sexual assault of a child in Illinois and was arrested last month on Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>At an extradition hearing last Friday, Chief Prosecutor Michele Harris and assistant attorney general Jonathan Wilberscheid asked for a continuation of the extradition hearing as the CNMI government has been trying to get the Illinois governor Bruce Vincent Rauner to sign the warrant for McDonnell. <\/p>\n<p>The prosecution informed Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho that the OAG already has an e-copy of the warrant. The OAG is hoping to get the original copy by today, Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Camacho granted the government request for a continuance and set the new extradition hearing today, Monday, at 1:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant public defender Nancy Dominski, counsel for McDonnell, said they will oppose if no original copy is provided at today\u2019s hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Presiding Judge Roberto Naraja used to handle the case, but he transferred the matter to Associate Judge Wesley Bogdan and later to Camacho.<\/p>\n<p>Camacho heard the case Friday at 3:30pm after he returned from Tinian, where he also presided over hearings that day.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for the 45-day extradition hearing in McDonnell\u2019s case is Nov. 24. <\/p>\n<p>At a hearing last Oct. 10, Associate Judge Teresa Kim-Tenorio imposed a $1-million cash bail on McDonnell, citing the seriousness of the charges, the danger McDonnell poses to children in the CNMI, and his status as a flight risk.<\/p>\n<p>The original extradition hearing was set for Nov. 13.<\/p>\n<p>McDonnell is wanted in the county of Rock Island in Illinois, on multiple charges of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child.<\/p>\n<p>A joint effort between the U.S. Marshals and the Department of Public Safety led to McDonnell\u2019s arrest in Susupe last Oct. 6.<\/p>\n<p>An Illinois judge issued an arrest warrant against McDonnell last Sept. 27 on charges of three counts of criminal sexual assault and four counts of predatory criminal sexual assault of a child. The Illinois judge imposed a $250,000 cash bail.<\/p>\n<p>With the arrest, the OAG then filed a count of fugitive from justice.<\/p>\n<p>The Moline Police Department said McDonnell went missing under mysterious circumstances and that he was last seen driving his truck last Sept. 11. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities reportedly traced McDonnell to Saipan because of bank transactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of the Attorney General has been able to obtain from the governor of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":264785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19119,26,16129,86],"class_list":["post-264780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-bruce-vincent-rauner","tag-cnmi","tag-jonathan-wilberscheid","tag-oag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264780","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=264780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}