{"id":98089,"date":"2006-02-16T03:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a6560203-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2006-02-16T03:58:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T03:58:00","slug":"a6560213-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a6560213-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Court clears 3rd person accused of beating up a man at a motel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Superior Court has dismissed the charges against third man accused of ganging up on a man inside a store at a Garapan motel.<\/p>\n<p>Associate Judge David A. Wiseman dropped the case against Wang Sheng Sheng after the Attorney General\u2019s Office moved to dismiss the charges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on the government\u2019s representation and for good cause shown, the case is dismissed as to Wang Sheng Sheng,\u201d Wiseman said.<\/p>\n<p>Wang and co-defendants Luo Fang and Yong Luo were originally charged with aggravated assault and battery and other charges.<\/p>\n<p>The AGO filed on Monday a second amended information charging the defendants with only assault and battery.<\/p>\n<p>Luo Gang and Yong Luo entered a plea agreement with the government and pleaded guilty. <\/p>\n<p>The plea agreement stated that on May 23, 2005 the defendants beat up and wounded Jun Chen.<\/p>\n<p>Luo Fang was sentenced to one year in jail, all suspended except for 45 days, with credit for 14 days. <\/p>\n<p>Yong Luo was sentenced to one year in prison, all suspended except for 52 days. He was given credit for the 52 days he already served in jail.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the beating perpetrated by the defendants and three others happened inside JD Store II on the ground floor of Joy Motel. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Chen suffered two large lacerations on top of his head and bruises to the arms, right hand, stomach, and back.<\/p>\n<p>The three defendants, all  employees of a karaoke joint, were arrested a few days later.<\/p>\n<p>According to police in court papers, the six men, said to be members of a Fujian group, arrived at Joy Motel and started beating up Chen inside JD Store which is located on the ground floor of the motel.<\/p>\n<p>One was armed with a handgun concealed in a piece of paper, while the two others were holding a golf club and a metal pipe.<\/p>\n<p>Police said when they interviewed Chen in the hospital, he stated he does not know why the group ganged up on him. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Superior Court has dismissed the charges against third man accused of ganging up on a man inside a store at a Garapan motel.<\/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-98089","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\/98089","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=98089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}