{"id":298044,"date":"2019-04-23T06:06:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T20:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=298044"},"modified":"2019-04-23T06:06:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T20:06:54","slug":"police-officer-pleads-not-guilty-to-stealing-snacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/police-officer-pleads-not-guilty-to-stealing-snacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer pleads not guilty to stealing snacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer who has been accused of stealing snacks at a local gas station has pleaded not guilty to the charges yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Police officer Koji Maurice Taisacan, 29, through his lawyer, Charles McDonald, pleaded not guilty before Superior Court Associate Judge Wesley Bogdan.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald waived the formal reading of Taisacan\u2019s rights, the charges against Taisacan, and Taisacan\u2019s right to a speedy trial.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald also asked for discovery for the materials the prosecution has to charge Taisacan with.<\/p>\n<p>Bogdan set a status conference in Taisacan\u2019s case on July 17 at 9am.<\/p>\n<p>According to the allegation, Taisacan took candy bars and drinks, with a value of less than $250, from a Shell gas station in Susupe without paying for the items on June 12, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Office of the Attorney General\u2019s Robert Glass, who represented the government, said that the charge of theft is punishable by up to five years imprisonment with a fine of $5,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer who has been accused of stealing snacks at a local gas station&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298044","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}