Judge David A. Wiseman originally sentenced Roland R. Kaipat, 30, to five years imprisonment, all suspended except for three years, with credit of six months and two days time served at the Department of Corrections facility.
Kaipat has been incarcerated since his arrest on Nov. 15, 2010. He is expected to be released from prison on Nov. 15, 2013.
Kaipat admitted the offense of burglary. As part of the plea agreement, the Attorney General’s Office moved to dismiss the other charges of criminal mischief, and conspiracy to commit burglary.
Kaipat also conceded probation violation in another case, and the court sentenced him to three months imprisonment of the unimposed sentence that will be served concurrently with the burglary case.
Upon release from prison, Kaipat will be placed on three years probation.
He was ordered to pay a $500 fine, a $100 court assessment fee, a probation fee to be assessed by the Adult Probation Office, and a restitution to be determined by the court to be satisfied jointly and severally with the other co-defendant in this case.
Kaipat will write a letter of apology to his victim, complete 100 hours of community work service, stay away or not to have any contact with his victim or the crime scene for the entirety of his probation period, not to possess or consume alcohol during his probationary period, and to submit to random blood, breath or urine test upon demand of a CNMI probation officer.
Kaipat was also ordered “to testify truthfully, if called to do so, in any trial” of this case in local or federal courts.
On Nov. 15, 2010, police arrested Kaipat, Theodore O. Pehnos, 23, and Shabbo C. Sablan, 21 on charges of burglary and criminal mischief.
Police recovered a bolt cutter from one of the defendants. Police also found copper wires already skinned and ready for transport in a generator room of a building near Shirley’s Restaurant.
The status of the cases against Pehnos and Sablan was not immediately known.
In 2008, Wiseman sentenced Kaipat to two years imprisonment for burglary and theft at the former La Fiesta Mall in 2007.
Kaipat was also placed on five years of supervised probation.
