{"id":270472,"date":"2018-02-20T06:06:13","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T20:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=270472"},"modified":"2018-02-20T06:06:13","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T20:06:13","slug":"man-gets-3-years-conspiring-steal-tourists-wallet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/man-gets-3-years-conspiring-steal-tourists-wallet\/","title":{"rendered":"Man gets 3 years for conspiring to steal tourist\u2019s wallet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of two ex-convict cousins accused of robbing a female tourist in western Garapan pleaded guilty last week and was slapped with a three-year prison term.<\/p>\n<p>Lucky Michael Chipuelong, also known as Michael Chipwelong, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit theft and admitted to violating the terms and conditions of his probation in a previous criminal conviction.<\/p>\n<p>Superior Court Associate Judge Teresa Kim-Tenorio sentenced the 30-year-old Chipuelong to two years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>His probation was revoked and will serve one year of his suspended sentence in a previous case, without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining charges of robbery and assault and battery were dropped.<\/p>\n<p>Chipuelong conspired with Angel Chipuelong Ruben in stealing a purse on Aug. 31, 2017, on Saipan.<\/p>\n<p>Chipuelong confessed to police that they conspired to rob the tourist and that it was Ruben who grabbed the victim\u2019s purse.<\/p>\n<p>A concerned citizen who witnessed the robbery followed the suspects\u2019 car, resulting in the arrest of the two. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of two ex-convict cousins accused of robbing a female tourist in western Garapan pleaded&#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":[18251,162,20168,20169],"class_list":["post-270472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-angel-chipuelong-ruben","tag-car","tag-lucky-michael-chipuelong","tag-michael-chipwelong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270472","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=270472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}