{"id":395424,"date":"2023-07-06T06:06:26","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T20:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=395424"},"modified":"2023-07-06T06:06:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T20:06:26","slug":"jury-trial-for-man-accused-of-license-fraud-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/jury-trial-for-man-accused-of-license-fraud-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury trial for man accused of license fraud begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The jury trial for a man accused of license fraud is set to begin today at the U.S. District Court for the NMI.<\/p>\n<p>The jury trial for Bonifacio \u201cBoni\u201d Sagana is set to begin today at the District Court for the NMI with a jury selection.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, the U.S. District Court for the NMI issued an arrest warrant for Sagana following a grand jury indictment back on Jan. 31, 2022, on the charge of conspiring with others to unlawfully produce a CNMI driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n<p>Sagana fled the CNMI before he could be arrested and was only taken into custody last May 16, 2022, in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>Sagana was allegedly identified by other defendants facing the same charges as the person who arranged for them to fraudulently obtain a CNMI driver\u2019s license using a counterfeit U.S. immigration visa number.<\/p>\n<p>According to documents from the Eastern District Court of Wisconsin, Sagana, a U.S. permanent resident, appeared at an initial hearing on May 16, 2022, before judge James R. Sickel.<\/p>\n<p>The charge against Sagana is punishable by up to a maximum sentence of 15 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The jury trial for a man accused of license fraud is set to begin today&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":395427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395424","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\/395424","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=395424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}