{"id":408728,"date":"2024-05-15T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=408728"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Court-imposes-25K-bail-on-men-who-stole-vacuum-cleaners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Court-imposes-25K-bail-on-men-who-stole-vacuum-cleaners\/","title":{"rendered":"Court imposes $25K bail on men who stole vacuum cleaners"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Superior Court has imposed separate $25,000 cash bails on two men accused of stealing vacuum cleaners and a humidifier.<\/p>\n

Last week, Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph Camacho imposed separate $25,000 cash bails on Joseph Lee and Gyles Ruluked, two men accused of stealing vacuum cleaners and a humidifier from the Marianas Eye Institute.<\/p>\n

Lee, 26, and Ruluked, 39, are both facing burglary and theft charges.<\/p>\n

After appearing before Camacho last week for a bail hearing, they were remanded back to Department of Corrections\u2019 custody.<\/p>\n

The two are scheduled to appear in court today for a preliminary hearing while their arraignments are set for June.<\/p>\n

According to court documents, last April 28, the Department of Public Safety received a call from the Marianas Eye Institute reporting a burglary and theft incident.<\/p>\n

At the scene, responding officers observed that the clinic\u2019s container was broken into, and two vacuum cleaners and a humidifier were reported stolen.<\/p>\n

Surveillance footage identified Lee as a suspect and on April 29, Superior Court Associate Judge Teresa Kim-Tenorio signed off on an arrest warrant for Lee.<\/p>\n

On May 2, DPS canine officers Jesse Deleon Guerrero and Giovanni Taitingfong spotted Lee standing next to a Kia Seltos on a northbound lane of a road behind Saipan Computer Services in Garapan and served him the arrest warrant.<\/p>\n

The officers showed Lee the security camera footage of him and another individual breaking into Marianas Eye\u2019s container.<\/p>\n

According to court documents, Lee himself identified Ruluked as the second person in the footage. Lee also told police that a third individual, Glarisha Mabel, dropped him and Ruluked off on the unpaved road near Marianas Eye on the day the burglary and theft occurred.<\/p>\n

In a follow-up operation on May 6, detectives Daniel Kaipat and Vincent Rangamar met with Mabel near the old Japanese jail in Garapan.<\/p>\n

Mabel told police that on the day of the incident, Lee told her that they had a mission and left. She said Lee returned 30 minutes later with Ruluked.<\/p>\n

Mabel added when the pair came back, she saw Lee put vacuum cleaners in the trunk of the car and a humidifier in the backseat.<\/p>\n

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The CNMI Guma Hustisia or CNMI Judiciary in Susupe.<\/p>\n

-KIMBERLY B. ESMORES
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