{"id":358921,"date":"2022-01-04T06:05:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T20:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=358921"},"modified":"2022-01-04T06:05:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T20:05:35","slug":"camachos-co-defendant-pleads-not-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/camachos-co-defendant-pleads-not-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Camacho\u2019s co-defendant pleads not guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_358922\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-358922\" style=\"width: 256px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Vicente-Camacho-mug.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-358922\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Vicente-Camacho-mug-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-358922\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vicente Camacho<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of Rep. Vicente Camacho\u2019s (D-Saipan) co-defendants in an assault case has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.<\/p>\n<p>Tiepo A. Nikiti, 21, one of the men who allegedly helped Camacho assault another man last October 2021, pleaded not guilty before Superior Court presiding judge Roberto Naraja.<\/p>\n<p>The judge ordered Nikiti, who appeared out of custody, to return for a status conference on Feb. 1, at 1:30pm before Superior Court Associate Judge Teresa Kim-Tenorio.<\/p>\n<p>Similar the Precinct 3 representative, Nikiti has also been charged with assault and battery and disturbing the peace for allegedly assaulting Steven Koch last Oct. 29, on Freedom Drive, Chinatown.<\/p>\n<p>According to the official charging documents filed in court, Nikiti is one of the men accused of helping Camacho assault Koch while he was on a walk with his daughter on the evening of Oct. 29.<\/p>\n<p>The other individual who was also accused of assaulting Koch is reported to be a 14-year-old juvenile.<\/p>\n<p>Camacho, 60, was arrested by the Department of Public Safety on the evening of Nov. 2, 2021, but he immediately posted $1,250 cash bail and is out of custody.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the alleged assault, Koch reportedly suffered abrasions, bruising, and pain on his head and body from the blows, and was taken to the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. for examination.<\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 1, Koch, his wife and daughter asked the Superior Court to issue a temporary restraining order prohibiting Camacho, Nikiti, Ignacio \u201cIke\u201d S. Concepcion and Fiel Reynaldo Ortiz from engaging in any further physical harm, disturbance, harassment, blocking, threats and verbal abuse.<\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 12, Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho found cause for domestic violence, and issued a temporary restraining order and one-year protective order against Camacho, Nikiti, Concepcion, and Ortiz.<\/p>\n<p>The assault incident is believed to have stemmed from a longstanding animosity between Koch and his brother-in-law, Concepcion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Rep. Vicente Camacho\u2019s (D-Saipan) co-defendants in an assault case has pleaded not guilty&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":358923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358921","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\/358921","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=358921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}