{"id":346717,"date":"2021-06-25T06:05:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T20:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=346717"},"modified":"2021-06-25T06:05:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T20:05:56","slug":"3-accused-of-forging-drivers-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/3-accused-of-forging-drivers-license\/","title":{"rendered":"3 accused of forging driver\u2019s license"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S government is accusing three individuals of helping produce fake CNMI driver\u2019s licenses. <\/p>\n<p>The three were separately charged in the U.S District Court for the NMI with conspiring to produce falsified CNMI driver\u2019s licenses.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, the three\u2014Chun Li, Bernadita Antoni Zata, and Margarito Cortez Villafuerte\u2014are each charged with one count of conspiracy to unlawfully produce an identification document.<\/p>\n<p>Li was charged following the most recent forging incident, Jan. 19, 2019. The district court appointed Robert Torres to represent Li, who is set for a hearing on July 7. <\/p>\n<p>A court date has yet to be set for the other two defendants, Zata and Villafuerte.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents stated that back on June 21, 2017, Villafuerte conspired with an individual, identified as B.S., to produce a sham CNMI driver&#8217;s license.<\/p>\n<p>The federal court appointed Steven Pixley to represent Villafuerte, but, as of Wednesday afternoon, no hearing had been scheduled for the his appearance in court.<\/p>\n<p>As for Zata, she allegedly conspired and agreed with another person identified as B.S. to produce a CNMI driver\u2019s license back on Feb. 16, 2017. Torres was also appointed to represent Zata in the proceedings but no hearing had been scheduled for her appearance in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S government is accusing three individuals of helping produce fake CNMI driver\u2019s licenses. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":331080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346717","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=346717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}