{"id":43774,"date":"2014-07-31T04:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=43774"},"modified":"2014-07-31T04:00:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T18:00:20","slug":"ex-chief-marshal-dps-official-onni-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/ex-chief-marshal-dps-official-onni-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-chief marshal, DPS official Onni passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Wilhelm Onni, a former chief marshal of the CNMI Courthouse who also served as a police lieutenant at the Department of Public Safety, passed away on Monday in Nueva Ecija, Philippines. He was 68. <\/p>\n<p>Onni died of a massive heart attack in a hospital in the Philippines, according to former DPS commissioner Charles W. Ingram yesterday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_43776\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43776\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Pete-Wilhelm-Onni-mug.jpg\" alt=\"Pete Wilhelm Onni\" width=\"200\" height=\"194\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43776\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete Wilhelm Onni<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI was shocked. I became emotional,\u201d said Ingram about his reaction upon receiving an email Monday night from Onni\u2019s wife about what had happened.<\/p>\n<p>Onni and wife, Sharon Mangilit Onni, have three children: Edward, Pete Jr., and Jewel. The family lives in Cabiao, Nueva Ecija.<\/p>\n<p>Ingram and his wife Helen are the godfather and godmother of Onni\u2019s children Edward and Pete Jr. respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Onni\u2019s burial will be this Saturday at a cemetery in Cabiao.<\/p>\n<p>Ingram said Onni first served as chief marshal of the CNMI Courthouse, then he hired him at DPS as a police lieutenant during his term as commissioner from 1998 to 2002. Ingram said he assigned Onni as head of the criminal intelligence and Interpol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s very good. He rewrote all the standard operations procedures and guidelines for DPS and Department of Corrections,\u201d the former DPS commissioner said.<\/p>\n<p>After serving at DPS for less than four years, Onni and his family moved to the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Onni was born in Hanko, Finland, where he served in the military and became a police officer. He then worked for the police department in Atlanta, Georgia. <\/p>\n<p>Ingram said Onni conducted a lot of K-9 trainings in the United States. <\/p>\n<p>Before coming to Saipan, Onni served as head of Customs at American Samoa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Wilhelm Onni, a former chief marshal of the CNMI Courthouse who also served as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":43776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[35,773,63,215],"class_list":["post-43774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-dps","tag-finland","tag-philippines","tag-public-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43774","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}