{"id":5939,"date":"2012-03-22T07:34:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T07:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=5939"},"modified":"2012-03-22T07:34:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T07:34:12","slug":"machete-left-behind-in-foiled-burglary-at-garapan-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/machete-left-behind-in-foiled-burglary-at-garapan-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Machete left behind in foiled burglary at Garapan house"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Ferdie de la Torre<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>A burglar left a 21-inch long machete in one of two apartment units in Garapan that he tried to break into early Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The burglar ran off with a male companion who was acting as a lookout when one of the apartment&#8217;s occupants saw him trying to open the door knob at the main door using a machete.<\/p>\n<p>Police officers scoured the apartment&#8217;s vicinity but failed to catch the burglars, Saipan Tribune learned.<\/p>\n<p>The would-be victim told Saipan Tribune that her husband had just finished eating after arriving from work at 2am and was about to double-lock the front door when it slowly opened and a machete slipped through the crack. He saw a man holding the machete and immediately slammed the door and shouted for help.<\/p>\n<p>The machete was stuck on the door and the surprised burglar ran away. Witnesses said another man also fled.<\/p>\n<p>The couple learned that the burglar first tried to break into another unit on the same floor that same day. The suspect destroyed the door&#8217;s screen but failed to get inside because of the lock on the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ferdie de la Torre Reporter A burglar left a 21-inch long machete in one&#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-5939","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\/5939","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=5939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}