By Cherrie Anne E. Villahermosa
Variety News Staff

A MAN charged with disturbing the peace of a woman when she refused to sell him a bottle of soju a year ago has received a sentence of probation.
Estanislao L. Norita, 39, entered a guilty plea to disturbing the peace and was sentenced to six months of imprisonment, all suspended.
Superior Court Associate Judge Ramona V. Manglona placed Norita on probation for a period of six months.
He was ordered to pay a fine of $250, a court assessment fee of $25 and a probation fee of $50.
Norita was ordered to complete any recommended course of treatment including alcohol treatment at the Community Guidance Center.
He was ordered to stay away from the San Jose Mart while on probation and to obey all commonwealth and federal laws.
Norita’s review hearing was set for May 16 at 9 am.
According to the prosecution, Norita, on March 22, 2006, “unlawfully acted in a way which unreasonably annoyed or disturbed Virginia Paras when (he) refused to leave the San Jose Mart after the victim refused to sell him a bottle of soju because she observed that he was already intoxicated.”
Norita was originally charged with two counts of criminal trespass and two counts of disturbing the peace for refusing to leave the San Jose Mart on March 22, 2006 and Kim’s laundry on Aug. 4, 2005, and for disturbing the peace of Paras and Mee Yeon Lee.
Norita appeared for a change of plea hearing last week with Chief Public Defender Elisa Long and entered a guilty plea to one count of disturbing the peace.
Chief Prosecutor Jeffery Warfield Sr. agreed to dismiss the other charges.