{"id":392955,"date":"2023-06-02T06:06:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T20:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=392955"},"modified":"2023-06-02T06:06:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T20:06:50","slug":"man-allegedly-wielding-machete-at-a-local-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/man-allegedly-wielding-machete-at-a-local-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Man allegedly wielding  machete at a local bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BOG-pix-W.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-392967\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/BOG-pix-W-1024x531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Public Safety arrested a man at the Bank of Guam yesterday morning after bystanders reported that he was wielding a machete outside the establishment.<\/p>\n<p>Footage of police vehicles lined up outside the Bank of Guam entrance in Garapan and officers entering the building with their K9 units circulated on several social media platforms yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement from Department of Public Safety spokesperson Fred Sato in response to the footage, he said officers and K9s responded to the scene following a disturbance call but the K9 units were not deployed as officers were able to restrain the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>DPS later reported that Patrick T. Gibo, 44, was the subject in the incident. Gibo was allegedly wielding a machete outside Bank of Guam and he was reported to police.<\/p>\n<p>Bank of Guam refused to comment about the incident.<\/p>\n<p>In an official press release from DPS, it stated that DPS dispatch received a call about a disturbance at the Bank of Guam in Garapan at about 9:41am yesterday. \u00a0Witnesses reported seeing a man wielding a machete and screaming outside the bank&#8217;s main entrance.<\/p>\n<p>Bank employees initially attempted to assist Gibo, but then decided to wait for responding officers.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived on the scene at about 9:45am and one officer noticed Gibo standing outside with a machete on the ground beside him. Gibo allegedly attempted to pick up the machete twice, but both times, the officer immediately directed him to drop it and step away.<\/p>\n<p>On his third attempt to pick up the weapon, the officer physically stopped Gibo from picking it up and was assisted by other officers in restraining the man.<\/p>\n<p>The man was detained and then transported to the Commonwealth Health Center where he remains admitted for 72 hours for an evaluation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Public Safety arrested a man at the Bank of Guam yesterday morning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":392967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392955","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\/392955","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=392955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}