By Gina Tabonares
Variety News Staff

A WOMAN who went shopping in several commercial businesses and wrote checks without funds amounting to $1,500 was charged yesterday with theft by deception as a second-degree felony.
Jennifer Nededog Topasna, 27, allegedly committed the felony offense between Dec. 11, 2006 and Jan. 29, 2007.
Based on the magistrate complaint filed by the Attorney General’s Office, Topasna wrote checks on a Navy Federal Credit Union checking account and used them in purchasing food at Payless Supermarket several times.
Topasna also shopped at 7-Day Supermarket five times using the same check account without fund. She used the same checks at Ace Hardware twice.
All checks were returned due to insufficient funds.
When interrogated by police, Topasna admitted writing the checks for food and services, adding that she knew there were no funds in her Navy Federal Credit Union checking account.
She confessed that she ordered the checks via mail.
Massage parlor mess
In other news, a man was arrested and charged with family violence and criminal mischief after damaging some property of a local massage parlor in Tumon.
Nian Bao Hong, 40, was complained by his former girlfriend Huan Chan, who works at Alice Massage.
Chan said Hong went to the business establishment and kicked the front door, which resulted in a broken glass entrance of the massage parlor.
Chan told police that when Hong was not able to enter the massage parlor, he left the area only to return with an object in his hand which he used in breaking the glass door of the establishment.
Once inside, Hong took two ceramic flower vases and threw them out, creating a mess around the massage parlor.
Chan said the estimated value of the shattered glass door is $800, while the two flower vases are worth $250.