{"id":48173,"date":"1999-09-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-09-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9501df53-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"1999-09-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-09-28T00:00:00","slug":"9501df67-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/9501df67-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Manglona&#039;s son\ncharged with assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Attorney General&#8217;s Office yesterday filed criminal charges against the son of former Sen. Herman Manglona in connection with the Sept. 8 &#8220;spitting&#8221; incident during the media&#8217;s coverage of the indictment hearing involving the former senator.<\/p>\n<p>Herman Manglona Jr. was charged with assault and battery and disturbing the peace.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Atty. General Marvin Williams filed the case in the Superior Court based on the complaint lodged by MCV News cameraman Tony Cobb.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place when local reporters were waiting outside the Horiguchi building, where federal investigators were hearing the former senator&#8217;s bribery case in a closed-door session.<\/p>\n<p>After the hearing,  Manglona Jr. came out of the building, apparently displeased with the presence of the media. He approached Cobb and  spat a mouthful of refreshment drink on his face.  The act was captured on camera.<\/p>\n<p>Manglona Sr. resigned from the Senate after pleading guilty to bribery charges. (MCM)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Attorney General&#8217;s Office yesterday filed criminal charges against the son of former Sen. Herman Manglona in connection with the Sept. 8 &#8220;spitting&#8221; incident during the media&#8217;s coverage of the indictment hearing involving the former senator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48173","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\/48173","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=48173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}