By Cherrie Anne E. Villahermosa
Variety News Staff

A MAN convicted for receiving stolen property in 2003 was arrested on Tuesday for beating up two minors.
Mathew Wayne Kisa, 24, was arrested on Tuesday afternoon for assault and battery and was brought to Superior Court for a bail hearing yesterday morning.
Assistant Attorney General Anne Marie Roy requested that the recommended bail of $5,000 be retained.
Associate Judge David A. Wiseman granted the government’s request.
The defendant’s counsel, Assistant Public Defender Adam Hardwicke, requested bail modification and a hearing was set for Friday at 11 a.m.
Kisa was ordered to appear in court for the preliminary hearing on Feb. 13, at 9 a.m. and for arraignment on Feb. 20, at 9 a.m.
He was convicted for receiving stolen property on June 25, 2003 and is presently on probation.
According to the police affidavit, Kisa had just finished playing basketball with his brother-in-law when he attacked his minor brother-in-law’s friends.
The victims were hanging out with a friend who is the defendant’s brother-in-law when Kisa grabbed a 14-year-old from behind and started pinching his chest.
The victim pushed the defendant’s hand away and told Kisa to leave him alone.
Kisa then pushed the victim down, punched him in the head and kicked him in the stomach.
Kisa stopped beating the victim when he heard the victim’s father shouting at them.
Kisa immediately left in a pick-up truck.
According to the affidavit, before beating up of the 14-year-old boy, Kisa had hit another minor with slippers.
Kisa chased the 10-year-old boy and hit the back of the minor’s head with the slippers. He then got the boy in a headlock and hit him again with the slippers.