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Ex-convict gets 5-year term for assaulting cop, parole violation
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Posted on Nov 03 2008
Superior Court Associate Judge David A. Wiseman has imposed a five-year prison term on an ex-convict who stole liquor from a store and assaulted a female police officer.
Wiseman sentenced Nickson Hartman to one year in prison, to run consecutively with his sentence on charges of theft, assault and battery, and resisting arrest.
Wiseman sentenced Hartman to five years in jail for admitting to have violated his probation in his 2005 criminal conviction.
The sentences in both cases, the judge said, shall run concurrently. It means that the total prison time for both cases is five years.
Hartman, a citizen of the Federated States of Micronesia, was given 186 days credit for the time has he already served in jail.
Wiseman remanded Hartman to the Department of Corrections and ordered that he be released to Immigration officials on March 1, 2013 for deportation.
The defendant and counsel, assistant public defender Douglas Hartig, signed a plea agreement with the government represented by assistant attorney general Rebecca Warfield.
Hartman pleaded guilty to theft, assault and battery, and resisting arrest. He conceded the parole violation in the 2005 case.
The plea agreement stated that on Feb. 29, 2008 on Saipan, Hartman purposely attempted to flee from Police Officer Catherine Pangelinan.
The defendant removed a bottle of rum from Dolphin Wholesale with the intent of stealing it. He was subsequently subdued and arrested.
At the time the offense was committed, Hartman was on probation.
According to a police report, when employees of Dolphin Wholesale confronted Hartman for shoplifting, he ran toward the San Jose Church.
When Pangelinan located Hartman in the men’s restroom area on the third floor of the Morgen Building, he attempted to run away by pushing the officer out the doorway.
Pangelinan managed to hold him. As the two struggled, other officers arrived and secured Hartman.
Last New Year’s Eve, Hartman reportedly stole a vehicle and engaged a police sergeant in a car chase from Garapan Elementary School to Capital Hill.
In May 2006, he was arrested after he reportedly burglarized a house on Capital Hill that he also burglarized a month earlier.
