{"id":82350,"date":"2004-07-03T05:31:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-03T05:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/9fd57590-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2004-07-03T05:31:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-03T05:31:00","slug":"9fd575a3-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/9fd575a3-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Public Safety arrested a 28-year-old man after he allegedly assaulted a police officer early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>According to DPS public information officer Thomas A. Blas Jr., a Fire Rescue crew reported a male individual, Ming Jhe Li, obstructing traffic in the middle of Beach Road Chalan Piao shortly after 1am. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficer [Emery] Kaipat responded and found the individual. [Kaipat] confronted the male individual and immediately the individual retaliated by yelling back at the officer and refusing to obey the officer\u2019s orders to calm down,\u201d Blas said.<\/p>\n<p>Further, Blas said the suspect assaulted the officer by \u201cpushing him in the chest\u201d and was verbally aggressive as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficer Kaipat attempted to arrest the suspect, but [he] refused to cooperate. [A] pepper mace had to be applied to his face in order to be subdued,\u201d Blas said. <\/p>\n<p>Preliminary investigation also indicated that the suspect was highly intoxicated during the confrontation.<\/p>\n<p>Blas said the suspect was taken to the Adult Correctional Facility where he was booked and detained.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with assault and battery and resisting arrest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Public Safety arrested a 28-year-old man after he allegedly assaulted a police officer early Wednesday morning.<\/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-82350","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\/82350","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=82350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}