The defendant, 47-year-old Susan Pascual, was represented by Assistant Public Defender Douglas Hartig.
Assistant Attorneys General Rebecca Warfield and Joseph J. Przyuski represented the government.
Associate Judge David A. Wiseman ordered Pascual to stay away from MITA Travel, and follow all directives, appointments and conditions of the Office of Adult Probation.
Pascual’s passport will be released and the $500 bail she posted will be applied toward fines, probation fees and restitution.
She will have to pay a $150 fine, $25 in court assessment fee and restitution in the amount of $948.50.
She will also render 100 hours community work service within 10 months.
The Attorney General’s Office filed an information in court against her on April 17, 2008 for one count of theft by deception and one count of theft by failure to make required deposition of funds received.
Following plea negotiations, she entered a guilty plea to the lesser offense of theft by failure to make required disposition of funds received. The government then moved to dismiss all other counts.
The charges against Pascual stemmed from the affidavit filed by Detective Patrick Earl Maanao who stated that he received a call from Police Officer Emery Kaipat at about 2:30 p.m. on April 9, 2008 about a complaint from Mita Travel Agency in Garapan.
Maanao said Mita Travel complained that a former employee had stolen money from one of the agency’s customers.
Maanao said the defendant was terminated by Mita Travel on March 13, 2008 for misappropriation of company funds.
Investigations showed that a customer purchased an airline ticket to Bangladesh worth $948.50 on Feb. 25, 2008.
When the customer came to pick up his ticket, the computer records showed his ticket was cancelled that afternoon.
Based on records, the defendant was found to have made the travel arrangements and cancelled it.
Mita Travel said when they called the defendant, she said the money should be in their records but there was none to be found.
The defendant said that if the customer still needed a ticket she would pay for it using her personal check but when Mita Travel refused, she left and promised to return.
Maanao said the defendant later admitted she took the money to make other payments for other customers.
