{"id":404546,"date":"2024-01-30T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=404546"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Police-rummage-through-landfill-in-search-of-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Police-rummage-through-landfill-in-search-of-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Police rummage through landfill in search of evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police officers rummaged through piles of trash at the Marpi Landfill throughout last week in search of evidence believed to be linked to the double homicide case at a Finasisu residence earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p><em>Saipan Tribune<\/em> visited the Marpi Landfill last Friday and learned that about 10 to 15 police officers have been rummaging through the garbage from Monday to Thursday in search of evidence.<\/p>\n<p><em>Saipan Tribune<\/em> learned that the evidence police were looking for could be involved in the brutal killing of Liu Shuping and Wang Jingdong.<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear if the police were able to locate anything or what exactly they were looking for.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Public Safety has yet to issue an official statement on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>According to a previous DPS news release, DPS dispatch received on Jan. 4 at around 10:46am an injured person(s) report at the former Ladera Building along Tun Joaquin Doi Road in Finasisu, which used to house a school.<\/p>\n<p>The individual who made the call, a colleague of Liu, said she came to check on Liu as she did not make it to the school where they teach.<\/p>\n<p>The caller immediately sought help in calling police due to language barrier because she said she panicked when she saw a trail of blood leading to the couple\u2019s bedroom when she looked through one of the buildings\u2019 windows.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived at the Ladera Building at approximately 11:02am and discovered an unresponsive Wang and Liu. Both victims were covered in blood while Wang was reportedly lying in a pool of it.<\/p>\n<p>The two were immediately rushed to the Commonwealth Health Center where Wang was pronounced dead, having succumbed to his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Liu, after fighting for her life for over two days, succumbed to her injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the murders, the couple had reported a break-in but police have not disclosed what became of that. Police did disclose that they are looking at the break-in as a possible angle in the murders.<\/p>\n<p>DPS continues to investigate the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who may have any information, no matter how small, are encouraged to call police to report it.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/79a996b94936ee72bd140f9596b36b02.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>The Marpi Landfill.<\/p>\n<p>-KIMBERLY B. ESMORES<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police officers rummaged through piles of trash at the Marpi Landfill throughout last week in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404546","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}