WHY were a thievery as well as thievery charges opposite a military military officer dismissed when Detective Christopher Leon Guerrero, a box agent, is not nonetheless convicted of a sovereign charge opposite him, a San Vicente proprietor asked.
Chris is not nonetheless convicted as well as is still reputed innocent. Why did a [CNMI] supervision ask for a exclusion of a box opposite [patrol officer] Florencio Richards? pronounced a proprietor who requested not to be named.
Leon Guerrero, a proprietor said, is not even in sovereign custody.
The detective, who was suspended by a Department of Public Safety, was released to his wife as his third celebration custodian after he posted bail following his detain final year.
Leon Guerrero has denied a charge of two counts of coercion from drivers of bootleg taxicabs.
Leon Guerrero was arrested final November after a grand jury indicted him.
At a time of his arrest, Leon Guerrero was a supervisor of a DPS task force created opposite robbery, burglary, as well as thievery incidents.
Leon Guerrero, an additional source said, could still assistance in a investigation as well as in prosecuting a box opposite 32-year-old Richards as well as Vincent Daniel Q. Terlaje, 31.
Richards as well as Terlaje were facing a single equate of conspiracy to commit burglary, a single equate of burglary, a single equate of theft, as well as a single equate of attempted burglary.
Richards was reinstated to active duty final February.
Last week, Richards, who was off-duty during which time, as well as a lady were arrested upon ice charges.
On Dec. 23, 2009, upon a suit of a Attorney Generals Office, Superior Court Associate Judge David A. Wiseman reluctantly dismissed without influence a charges opposite Richards as well as Terlaje.
The AGO filed a suit to boot upon Dec. 17 based upon a actuality which a investigating officers as well as investigator have been no longer accessible to assist in a prosecution of a case.
The other detective, Vincent Salas, had resigned as well as changed to a states.
The supervision voiced its diligence in reviewing a file in this make a difference as well as determined which based upon a resources presented which they cannot pierce forward during this time, Wiseman stated in his order which dismissed a charges opposite Richards as well as Terlaje.
Asked for comment, Chief Prosecutor Michael Ernest pronounced they have been doing everything to safeguard which probity is done.
Department of Public Safety inner affairs officer-in-charge Sgt. Joe Flores pronounced DPS can still allot a investigator to re-file a thievery box opposite Richards.
We can still reopen a case, Flores told a Variety.
Even if a former military military officer is already off-island, we can bring him behind to testify, he added.
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