The Department of Public Safety has received several promising leads on who stole the 63 boxes of disaster relief supplies worth $50,400 from the storage room of the Emergency Management Office on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n
DPS Criminal Investigation Bureau chief Maj. Edward H. Manalili, in a telephone interview with the Saipan Tribune yesterday late afternoon, expressed optimism that investigators would immediately solve the case.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we can crack this case right away,\u201d Manalili said, hinting that his men \u201care out there right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have been receiving information that hopefully will help us in cracking this case,\u201d the major said.<\/p>\n
The CIB chief also thanked the Saipan Tribune for coming up with the story about the burglary.<\/p>\n
He said that, after the article was published on Tuesday, they received many calls that turned out to be \u201cvery positive.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Friday afternoon, EMO acting director Gregorio A. Deleon Guerrero reported to DPS about the break-in that occurred at their storage room, which used to be occupied by the Marianas Public Lands Authority.<\/p>\n
The disaster relief packages, worth $800 each, were reportedly among the 130 boxes donated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency when a supertyphoon battered the CNMI sometime in 1998. <\/p>\n
Each box contained a tent, lantern, portable stove, cooking pot, fire extinguisher, and first aid kit, EMO said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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