Vickilyn Teregeyo
CHIEF Judge Ramona V. Manglona of the District Court for the NMI has revoked the supervised release of Vickilyn Manglona Teregeyo, and sentenced her to serve 11 months in prison with no supervised release to follow for violating the mandatory and special conditions of her probation.
Teregeyo was given credit for time served.
Following a request from the U.S. Probation Office, the federal court issued an arrest warrant against Teregeyo on June 13. She was arrested on June 18.
According to the probation office, Teregeyo committed the following violations:
1) Tested positive for the use of methamphetamine on sweat patches applied on her person on Dec. 1-8, 2023; Dec. 13-21, 2023; Jan. 9-12, 2024; March 13-18, 2024; March 18 and 19, 2024; April 16 and 17, 2024; April 24 and 25, 2024; May 1-6, 2024; and May 17-21, 2024. She also tested positive for methamphetamine and marijuana on a sweat patch applied on her person on Jan. 22-26, 2024.
2) Failed to follow the instructions of the probation officer by associating with an individual she was previously instructed to stay away from, and failing to report to the U.S. Probation Office on Feb. 2, 2024 and June 11, 2024.
3) Tampered with a sweat patch applied on her person on Feb. 1, 2024 and another sweat patch that was applied on her person on March 28, 2024.
4) Admitted she used methamphetamine on Feb. 10, 2024, April 9, 2024 and May 8, 2024.
5) Failed to comply with the requirements of the HOPE Recovery Center residential substance abuse treatment program by not returning to the center as required on June 10, 2024.
At the final dispositional hearing on Friday, Teregeyo was represented by attorneys David Banes and Richard Miller while Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric O’Malley appeared for the federal government.
Miller told the court that the defense was not prepared to move forward with the hearing due to a HOPE Recovery representative not being available for testimony. He requested a short continuance, and said that his client was no longer at the HOPE Recovery Center.
O’Malley did not oppose a continuance but objected to Teregeyo’s release pending continuance.
After hearing from the parties, Judge Manglona declined the request for a continuance.
In a three-page judgment order on the same day, Judge Manglona sentenced Teregeyo to 11 months in prison with credit for time served with no supervised release to follow.
The judge also recommended to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons that Teregeyo serve her prison sentence on Saipan.
Teregeyo was convicted on Guam of the offense of drug user in possession of a firearm and ammunition but was allowed by the federal court to serve her probation in the CNMI.
She was sentenced by Guam District Court Chief Judge Frances M. Tydingco-Gatewood on May 24, 2019 to time served, 12 months and 18 days, with a three-year term of supervised release.
Her supervision was then transferred to the jurisdiction of the District Court for the NMI, whose chief judge revoked Teregeyo’s supervised release in March 2022 after the defendant admitted that she used methamphetamine.
Teregeyo was sentenced to serve a three-month prison term, followed by three months of home confinement/detention with electronic location monitoring as a special condition of supervised release, and 27 months of supervised release.
Her fourth term of supervised release started on Nov. 24, 2023, and was set to expire on May 23, 2025.
After serving her six-month sentence for probation violation, Teregeyo again tested positive for the use of methamphetamine.
