EDWARD Iglecias Blas, whose parole application was granted in July 2022, is back in jail over an assault incident.
At a preliminary hearing on Nov. 9, 2022, Superior Court Associate Judge Wesley Bogdan found probable cause to charge Blas, 30, with two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, and three counts of disturbing the peace.
At the hearing, Blas was represented by Assistant Public Defender Tyler Scott, while the government was represented by Assistant Attorney General Heather Barcinas.
Blas was remanded to the custody of the Department of Corrections after the hearing and was ordered to return to court for an arraignment on Nov. 14 at 9 a.m. before Presiding Judge Roberto C. Naraja.
The court previously imposed a $50,000 cash bail on Blas.
According to the complaint against Blas, he threatened to kill two people with a kitchen knife while intoxicated with alcohol, and he also punched his girlfriend.
The girlfriend told police that Blas was mad because he could not find his slippers and that he stabbed a plastic table in anger.
Before being paroled, Blas was serving a 24-year prison sentence after he pled guilty to murder in the first degree committed during the perpetration of burglary and/or robbery.
He became eligible for parole after serving one-third of his sentence.
Blas, who was 16 at that time of the incident, was charged as an adult with two other teen co-defendants in 2009.
According to the prosecution, the three beat to death a security guard, Efren Ballesteros, 45, with a PVC pipe, an iron rebar and a 2×2 wood board on Nov. 17, 2008.
Police said the defendants hatched a plan on the night of Nov. 16, 2008, to steal laptops from Marianas High School.
