The court also ordered Alvin Santos to pay an assessment fee of $75, write a letter of apology to the victim, perform 50 hours of community work, refrain from taking alcohol, and obey all CNMI and federal laws.
The probation office can also conduct a breathalyzer test on Santos.
Santos, with his counsel Assistant Public Defender Richard Miller, entered into a plea agreement with the court last week. The government was represented by Assistant Attorney General L.G Taijeron Jr.
In an affidavit, Detective Andrea C. Ozawa stated that a domestic violence incident in Kagman was reported to the police at 10:03 p.m. on March 3, 2008.
According to the affidavit, the responding police officer had to go down from the police car and listen for any sign of disturbance in the area as the caller did not give any specific direction to the house.
The police officer said he heard a woman screaming from a semi-concrete house north of where he was parked.
The officer said he also heard children screaming.
He knocked on the door and identified himself.
When the door was opened, the officer saw “things were scattered all over the house.”
The man who opened the door, Santos, told the officer that he and his wife were “just arguing.”
Santos’ wife also said that she and her husband had an argument.
The officer noted that the two “had obviously consumed several cans of beer prior to the incident.”
The shirt of the defendant’s wife was torn and she had scratches to her left cheek and chin but the woman claimed that the scratches were “just pimples.”
The police officer then talked to one of the couple’s six children.
The child said her father strangled and punched her mother, the affidavit stated.
