{"id":398316,"date":"2023-08-29T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=398316"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Convicted-murderer-faces-parole-revocation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Convicted-murderer-faces-parole-revocation\/","title":{"rendered":"Convicted murderer faces parole revocation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The CNMI Board of Parole is set to hold revocation proceedings for convicted murderer and parolee Edward Blas who was recently arrested for threatening others at knifepoint.<\/p>\n

The CNMI Board of Parole is set to hold parole hearings all week starting this Wednesday and will also hold revocation proceedings for Blas who was arrested less than a year after he was granted parole.<\/p>\n

In addition, the Board of Parole will also be holding pardon proceedings for Jodan Taitingfong, man who was sentenced to 15-years imprisonment for robbery and aggravated assault and battery.<\/p>\n

Aside from Blas and Taitingfong, the other inmates who are up for parole hearings are Kui Zhang, Calistro Crisostimo, Bradley Defang, Titomir Bhuiyan, Derik Reyes, and Randy Igisomar.<\/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 a Marianas High School 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


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