Jason Ruluked appeared in court on Wednesday with his counsel Loren Sutton. The federal government was represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kirk Schuler.
The defendant admitted to violating court conditions.
U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Alex R. Munson told the defendant to participate in substance abuse treatment programs and any vocational and educational programs while in prison.
No release supervision will follow his release.
Munson gave Ruluked 10 days to appeal his sentence.
Ruluked was released but he must turn himself in to the U.S. Marshals Service on June 1, 2009.
In her declaration, U.S. Probation Officer Maria C. Cruz said on April 16, 2008, the U.S. Probation Office for the District of Guam accepted a transfer of supervision.
Ruluked arrived on Guam on May 7, 2008 and was processed five days later for supervision.
She said Ruluked violated a court condition that he should not commit another crime.
Cruz said a criminal record check on April 27, 2009 showed that Ruluked was arrested on Nov. 1, 2008 for criminal trespass, harassment and criminal mischief.
He was ordered to appear in Guam Superior Court on Oct. 21, 2009 to answer the charges.
Cruz said Ruluked also violated other conditions including not paying the special assessment fee of $50, not submitting a truthful and complete report within the first five days of each month, failing to notify the Probation Office within 72 hours after he was arrested in November last year, failure to participate in a substance abuse treatment program, failure to appear for 19 scheduled drug tests from May to Dec. 2008, and taking intoxicating beverage.
Ruluked told Cruz that his work as a security guard hindered him from taking drug tests.
Munson sentenced Ruluked to 33 months imprisonment for obstruction of justice and another 33 months jail term for false statements on July 8, 2003, to be served concurrently.
He was placed under three years supervised release on each of the two offenses under several court conditions.
Ruluked returned to the CNMI on June 20, 2005 to begin his term of supervised release.
His supervised release conditions were modified on Oct. 13, 2005 to include 200 additional hours community service, and modified again to include three months home detention with electronic monitoring.
On June 21, 2006, the supervised release was revoked based on numerous technical violations.
Ruluked was sentenced to three months imprisonment followed by 33 months of supervised release.
He was released from jail on Sept. 20, 2006 and returned to the CNMI to begin his supervised release, but on June 27, 2007, the court issued a warrant of arrest after the U.S. Probation Office filed a petition that Ruluked violated mandatory and special conditions.
Ruluked was again sentenced to six months jail term on June 29, 2007 to be followed by 27 months of supervised release.
Ruluked’s indictment stated that on Dec. 27, 2002, he covered up, by a trick or scheme, a material fact and made false statements in response to questioning by the agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and representatives of the U.S. Attorney’s Office concerning certain criminal activity then under federal investigation.
Included in Ruluked’s false statements was his participation in the April 12, 2002 armed robbery of the City Trust Bank Gualo Rai branch and his concealment of the participation of Norman Kapileo in the robbery.
