{"id":282377,"date":"2018-08-16T06:06:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T20:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=282377"},"modified":"2018-08-16T06:06:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T20:06:46","slug":"oag-amends-charges-vs-4-men-in-rape-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/oag-amends-charges-vs-4-men-in-rape-case\/","title":{"rendered":"OAG amends charges vs 4 men in rape case"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_282393\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-282393\" style=\"width: 237px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Teri-C.-Tenorio-mug.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Teri-C.-Tenorio-mug-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-282393\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-282393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teri C. Tenorio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Office of the Attorney General has amended the charges against four men, including a father and son, who were accused of rape. <\/p>\n<p>The amended information charged 42-year-old Joseph Aquino Saimon with sexual assault in the first degree, and assault and battery.<\/p>\n<p>Romeo Aquino Saimon, 43; Richmond Ray Keybond, 19; and Christopher Aquino Saimon, 38; were charged each with two counts of sexual assault in the second degree.<\/p>\n<p>Romeo Saimon is the father of Keybond.  <\/p>\n<p>Romeo, Christopher, and Joseph Saimon are bothers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the amended information filed by assistant attorney general Teri C. Tenorio, Joseph Saimon sexually assaulted the victim last June 25.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Saimon also allegedly pushed the victim, causing her to fall and bruise her knees last June 24.<\/p>\n<p>Romeo Saimon, Keybond, and Christopher Saimon allegedly sexually assaulted the woman twice while she was incapacitated last June 24.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the victim was drunk and was sleeping when the defendants raped her. <\/p>\n<p>At a preliminary hearing last month, Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho found probable cause to warrant the filing of two of four charges against Joseph Saimon. <\/p>\n<p>No probable cause was found to charge Joseph Saimon with two other offenses.<\/p>\n<p>No probable cause was found as to one charge against Keybond, but his counsel was ordered to file an opening brief as to two other charges.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Saimon\u2019s counsel was also ordered to file an opening brief. <\/p>\n<p>Romeo Saimon waived his right to a preliminary hearing. (Ferdie de la Torre)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of the Attorney General has amended the charges against four men, including a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":282393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21767,21913,86,21770],"class_list":["post-282377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-christopher-saimon","tag-joseph-saimon","tag-oag","tag-romeo-saimon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282377","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=282377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}