SUPERIOR Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho has denied the request of Ernest Milne Camacho to be remanded to the custody of the Department of Corrections at a later time because he had a doctor’s appointment on March 18, 2022.
On Tuesday, Judge Camacho ordered the CNMI Marshals to take the defendant into custody to start serving his sentence immediately.
Corrections “is more than capable to bring defendant to his [doctor’s] appointment,” the judge said in his judgment and commitment order.
Represented by attorney Robert T. Torres, the defendant, Ernest Milne Camacho, 30, pled guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon at a change of plea hearing on March 16, 2022.
Judge Camacho then sentenced him “to the full maximum of five years imprisonment, the first 12 months to be served day for day without the possibility of parole, probation, early release, work release, weekend release, home detention or another similar program.”
The defendant was given 15 days’ credit for time served.
The remaining sentence is suspended but may be imposed in whole or in part for any violation of the law or Office of Adult Probation rules.
The judge also ordered the defendant to pay a fine of $1,000 and court cost of $40 to be paid during the period of the defendant’s probation on a schedule that will be determined by the Office of Adult Probation.
The defendant will also be placed on probation for three years beginning immediately upon his release from incarceration. In addition, he must pay a probation supervision fee of $120 per year.
He was ordered not to have direct or indirect contact with his girlfriend, the victim in the case.
Initially Ernest M. Camacho was charged with disturbing the peace, assault and battery, assault with a dangerous weapon, theft, and interfering with a domestic call.
The girlfriend told police that she was asleep on a couch inside her house when she was awakened by the defendant yelling and throwing and breaking things because he had gone through her cell phone and saw text messages between her and a male friend.
Ernest M. Camacho accused her of cheating and they started arguing and yelling at each other she said.
According to the victim, the defendant became more violent “as he took a knife from the kitchen and threatened to kill her with it….”
She said he then threw the knife down and punched her multiple times in the face, head and back with both hands.
She said she tried to defend herself, but this just made Ernest M. Camacho angrier. She said he grabbed three wooden chairs from the dining table and used them to hit her.
She said he also started kicking her with his right foot before taking a leather strap from her purse and whipping her upper body with it as she was on the floor.
When she told him that she was going to call the police, he took her phone and keys to her car, and left the house with her car, she said.
