{"id":99682,"date":"2006-04-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a6d12f64-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2006-04-10T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-10T05:00:00","slug":"a6d12f78-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a6d12f78-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotel owner nabbed for $230K rubber checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police arrested the owner of Gold Beach Hotel in Garapan for allegedly issuing three bouncing checks amounting to $230,000 to the first owner of the hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Joon Sung Kim, 34, president of Elysium Inc. that owns Gold Beach Hotel, was arrested for theft, theft by deception, and issuance of bad checks.<\/p>\n<p>The Superior Court has imposed a $5,000 cash bail for Kim\u2019s temporary liberty. <\/p>\n<p>Police identified the victim as Seong Hyuk Seo, owner of a company in South Korea called Seong Hyuk Real Estate.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Patrick Earl Maanao stated in his report that Kim owed the victim $550,000 when he purchased Gold Beach Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>Maanao said that last month, Kim gave the victim three separate checks in the amount of $80,000; $80,000; and $70,000.<\/p>\n<p>Maanao said that when the victim attempted to cash the three checks at the Bank of Hawaii on March 23, 2006, he learned that the account had been closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police arrested the owner of Gold Beach Hotel in Garapan for allegedly issuing three bouncing checks amounting to $230,000 to the first owner of the hotel.<\/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-99682","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\/99682","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=99682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}