By Trina A. San Agustin
Variety News Staff

AGENTS of the Guam Police Department’s Cold Case Unit arrested a Yona resident for allegedly setting fire in a maintenance warehouse at the Leo Palace Resort in Manengon last Thursday.
David Junior Toves Rosario, 26, was arrested and charged with burglary, arson, criminal facilitation, and guilt established by complicity, and criminal trespassing.
According to sources, Rosario was arrested after he was released at the Guam Memorial Hospital for treatment of burns he had sustained during the fire. He was booked and released for further medical treatment.
The other man arrested in connection with this case, John Aguero Cruz, 41, of Yona, has a preliminary court hearing on May 3 at 4 p.m. before Superior Court Judge Alberto Lamorena.
Evidence found at the scene of the fire led to the arrest of Cruz. Cruz is an employee of the resort assigned at the maintenance department, according to GPD public information officer Allan Guzman.
Cruz was booked and confined on GPD charges of arson, burglary, trespassing, criminal mischief, and criminal facilitation. According to the magistrate complaint, Cruz faces possible charges of arson as a third-degree felony and burglary as a second-degree felony.
Officials reported over $250,000 in damages caused by the fire. Also burned that night in a separate fire was a golf cart.
At 7: 30 p.m. on Thursday, an individual near the warehouse reported that he had heard a loud explosion, saw smoke and an orange haze coming from the warehouses across the street from him. The witness reported the fire to the Guam Fire Department, documents read.
Through further investigation, GFD found gas containers stuffed with rags throughout the shed, a cellular phone, a beer can, and a lighter, and that the main roll up door had been tampered with.
“A check of the numbers in the cell phone revealed, among other names, that of David Junior Rosario. Upon attempting to contact Rosario, agent J.R. Meno spoke with his common law wife, Lyvonne Ichihara. Ichihara informed Meno that she and Rosario had gone to Rosario’s uncle John Cruz residence at around 5:20 p.m. and had returned home around 8:30 p.m. or 9 p.m.,” magistrate documents read.
When the two arrived at Cruz’s residence they immediately left Ichihara and went into another room. The two then left however, Rosario told Ichihara that if anyone called her asking if he owned a cell phone to say “no.”
“The next morning Ichihara spoke with Rosario and he told her that he and John Cruz had burned the warehouse at Leo Palace,” documents read.