HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) — Officers with the Guam Police Department were looking for a robbery suspect at a home in Harmon when they came across a man they later arrested on suspicion of drug possession hiding under a bed within the home.
A magistrate’s complaint filed Friday in the Superior Court of Guam against Chuck Saingo Lippwe said Lippwe was found “dubiously hiding” under the bed of the suspect in an “unrelated robbery.”
“A struggle ensued as officers attempted to extract (the) defendant from underneath the bed for safety reasons,” the complaint said.
Police secured Lippwe in handcuffs before conducting a pat-down for weapons “when they found an improvised glass pipe with suspected methamphetamine in (the) defendant’s left front pocket,” the complaint said.
A field test of the substance yielded a presumptive positive result for meth.
Officers were informed later that an active bench warrant had been issued for Lippwe by Superior Court Judge Maria Cenzon.
“(The) defendant was on pretrial release in CF0188-21, where he was charged with complicity to commit third-degree robbery as a third-degree felony and assault as a misdemeanor,” the complaint states.
In the current case, Lippwe is charged with possession of a Schedule II controlled substance as a third-degree felony. A special allegation of committing a felony while on felony release is attached to the charge.
Chuck Saingo Lippwe
