{"id":8441,"date":"2011-12-09T06:50:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T06:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=8441"},"modified":"2011-12-09T06:50:25","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T06:50:25","slug":"4th-defendant-in-drivers-license-scam-gets-30-day-jail-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/4th-defendant-in-drivers-license-scam-gets-30-day-jail-term\/","title":{"rendered":"4th defendant in driver&#8217;s license scam gets 30-day jail term"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Ferdie de la Torre<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona yesterday slapped a one-month jail term against one of the five defendants in the driver&#8217;s license scam case.<\/p>\n<p>Manglona gave defendant Hongmei Sun credit for the one day that she already served in jail.<\/p>\n<p>After serving the remaining 29 days in jail, the 40-year-old Sun will be placed on supervised release. She was also required to pay a $100 court assessment fee and perform 100 hours of community work service.<\/p>\n<p>Manglona said imposing a jail sentence on Sun is appropriate to promote respect of the law and deter others as well from committing the same crime.<\/p>\n<p>The judge noted that Sun admitted for her involvement in dealing with eight individuals for them to obtain a driver&#8217;s license unlawfully.<\/p>\n<p>Manglona said with the defendant&#8217;s actions, she was putting harm or potential harm to the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe potential harm to the community is very real,\u201d said.<\/p>\n<p>Manglona said although she sympathizes with Sun&#8217;s financial condition, harsh condition is not an excuse to commit a crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ferdie de la Torre Reporter U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Ramona&#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-8441","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\/8441","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=8441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}