By Cherrie Anne E. Villahermosa
Variety News Staff

A 33-year-old woman was arrested for theft and issuing bad checks.
Jennifer Camacho was arrested on Friday night in Chalan Kanoa and was brought to Superior Court for a bail hearing yesterday morning before Presiding Judge Robert C. Naraja.
Naraja allowed Camacho to post 10 percent of her $5,000 cash bail.
Camacho, who was represented by Assistant Public Defender Samuel J. Randall, will be released through a third party custodian who is her sister.
Judge Naraja ordered the defendant to return to court on March 26 for arraignment.
Assistant Attorney General Joseph Taijeron asked the court to order Camacho to refrain from playing poker while on bail.
Camacho was ordered not to leave Saipan and to keep all appointments with her attorney.
The affidavit of Detective Patrick Maanao of the Criminal Investigation Bureau stated that on Feb. 20, 2007, personnel of the First Hawaiian Bank in San Jose called DPS to report the issuance of bad checks.
Police Officer Christopher Leon Guerrero learned that one of the bank’s customers, Camacho, issued several bad checks to the bank.
Camacho issued five checks within a span of two weeks ranging from $500 to $1,500.
She deposited her personal checks from the Bank of Guam and the Bank of Hawaii into her account with the First Hawaiian Bank and used her automated teller machine card to withdraw her deposits before her personal checks had cleared.
The First Hawaiian Bank spoke to Camacho several times informing her that she needed to come to the bank to settle the insufficient funds “but the defendant gave many excuses as to why she couldn’t come in.”