Nine applications were heard by the board.
“Please bear in mind that public notices were disseminated to the public to attend all parole hearings timely, but there was lack of participation,” Parole Board Chairman Ramon B. Camacho said in a letter to the Variety.
The notice was not published in the Variety.
Of the nine applications, five were granted, two were conditionally granted, and one each was deferred and denied.
Along with Diaz, inmates Jeffrey Cabrera, Eugene Blas Repeki, Joseph M. Aldan, and Francisco F. Faisao were granted parole on March 12, 2010, and were told to follow “stringent parole conditions.”
Conditionally granted parole were Arnel C. Gutierrez and Nickson Garry Hartman, while the applications of Quincy N. Oiterong and Ricky V. Manahane were deferred and denied respectively.
Cabrera was convicted of robbery and was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, five years suspended and five years to serve.
He served three years and seven months of his sentence.
Repeki was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment after he was convicted of murder in the second degree.
He served 10 years and one month.
Aldan served eight months of his five-year sentence, of which three years and six months were suspended. He was supposed to serve 18 months in jail after being convicted of illegal possession of a controlled substance.
The board granted Faisao’s application for parole after serving 13 months in prison. He was sentenced to serve three years in jail for violating the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. Code.
Faisao and four other former CUC employees were charged with pocketing money to reconnect individuals who had been disconnected and purposely skipping the names of family members and friends from the power disconnection list.
He was sentenced to five years, with two years suspended.
Gutierrez and Hartman were conditionally granted parole, and they have to comply with the board’s orders: to coordinate with appropriate authorities to arrange for their voluntary departure from the commonwealth; to purchase a one-way ticket; and to remain in custody of the Department of Corrections until authorized for transport off-island. They cannot return to the CNMI.
Gutierrez was convicted of kidnapping and sexual abuse of a minor in the second degree and was sentenced to 12 years, with six years suspended.
He served two years and eight months of his sentence.
Hartman, who was deported on March 28, 2010, was convicted of theft, assault and battery, and resisting arrest, and was sentenced to a five-year jail term.
He served two years and two months of his sentence.
Manahane’s application for parole was denied by the board.
He was convicted of child abuse, and assault and battery, and was sentenced to three years and seven months.
He has already served eight months of his sentence.
Oiterong’s application was deferred by the board pending clarification on the deportation proceedings with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement due to his dual nationality.
He was convicted of armed robbery and was sentenced to serve five years imprisonment.
He has already served two years and 10 months of his sentence.
If Oiterong is deported, he cannot return to the CNMI, the board said.
