A former parolee who was previously arrested and detained at the Department of Corrections has been denied bail modification for alleged drug use and assaulting a DOC officer. <\/p>\n
Following his bail modification hearing yesterday, Superior Court Associate judge Teresa Kim-Tenorio denied the second bail modification requested by Edward Iglecias Blas, a former parolee who was previously arrested anew for assaulting his girlfriend and threatening two others with a knife. <\/p>\n
During the hearing, it was learned that Blas admitted to using drugs and he also allegedly assaulted a DOC officer while incarcerated again. <\/p>\n
Following the hearing, Blas was remanded back to DOC and was ordered to return to court when ordered to do so. <\/p>\n
According to Saipan Tribune archives, the court previously imposed a $50,000 cash bail on Blas on two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon and three counts of disturbing the peace. <\/p>\n
The complaint against Blas stated that back in November 2022, he threatened to kill two people with a kitchen knife while intoxicated and he also punched his girlfriend.<\/p>\n
The girlfriend told police that Blas was mad because he could not find his slippers and that he stabbed a plastic table in anger.<\/p>\n
Before being paroled, Blas was serving a 24-year prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to murder in the first degree, which he committed during the perpetration of burglary and\/or robbery.<\/p>\n
Blas was convicted back in 2011 of murder in the first degree after pleading guilty to the brutal killing of an MHS security guard with two others as part of a plan to rob the school.<\/p>\n
He became eligible for parole after serving one-third of his sentence.<\/p>\n
Blas, who was 16 at that time of the incident, was charged as an adult with two other teen co-defendants in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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