{"id":5044,"date":"2012-03-10T07:17:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T07:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=5044"},"modified":"2012-03-10T07:17:09","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T07:17:09","slug":"alleged-victim-wants-to-drop-complaint-vs-cop-boyfriend-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/alleged-victim-wants-to-drop-complaint-vs-cop-boyfriend-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged victim wants to drop complaint vs cop boyfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Ferdie de la Torre<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>The girlfriend of a police officer who allegedly beat her up last year has written a letter asking Superior Court presiding judge Robert C. Naraja to drop her complaint.<\/p>\n<p>The girlfriend stated in the letter that she personally hand-delivered her withdrawal letter on Aug. 25, 2011, to the Office of the Attorney General&#8217;s Criminal Division in reference to the criminal case against police officer Jerome A. Reyes.<\/p>\n<p>The girlfriend said at the Aug. 29, 2011, arraignment hearing, a government prosecutor did not bother to mention that she&#8217;s made a request to withdraw her complaint.<\/p>\n<p>This was what prompted her to write the letter to Naraja, she said. The letter, dated Sept. 1, 2011, was notarized and included in the criminal case file against Reyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe AG&#8217;s Office disregarded my withdrawal request and I was not afforded to speak for myself during the hearing even though I was present at such time,\u201d the girlfriend said.<\/p>\n<p>Although the arraignment is already done, the girlfriend said she wants Naraja to accept her plea in withdrawing her case against Reyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand that Mr. Reyes&#8217; action is not acceptable by law and by our Catholic beliefs and I truly don&#8217;t condone it. However, I do believe in forgiveness and I believe in giving Mr. Reyes a second chance,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She added that she strongly believes that Reyes is sorry for what he&#8217;s committed and is willing to get the help he needs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do kindly request your honor to consider dismissing my case for the sake of my family and most especially my daughter, who also forgives him for what he&#8217;s committed,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Last Monday, a status conference was conducted before Naraja. The judge continued the status conference on April 9, 2012 at 1:30pm.<\/p>\n<p>Reyes had entered a not-guilty plea to charges of assault and battery and disturbing the peace.<br \/>\nA detective stated in his report that Reyes beat up the girlfriend in the presence of her 9-year-old daughter at their apartment last Aug. 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ferdie de la Torre Reporter The girlfriend of a police officer who allegedly beat&#8230;<\/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-5044","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\/5044","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=5044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}