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3 found guilty of assaulting female store clerk
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Posted on May 02 2012
By Ferdie de la Torre
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After a six-day trial in the Superior Court, all three suspects accused of beating up a female store clerk were found guilty Monday.
The six jurors returned their verdict in the trial of Arinna A. Reiong, Norna Tipingeni, and Anson Sansi after deliberating for less than three hours.
The jurors found Reiong and Tipingeni guilty of aggravated assault and battery but not guilty of assault with a dangerous weapon.
They found Sansi not guilty of aggravated assault and battery, and two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon.
Associate Judge David A. Wiseman, who decided on misdemeanor charges, found Reiong and Tipingeni guilty of one count each for assault and battery and disturbing the peace. Wiseman found Sansi guilty of two counts of assault and battery and two counts of disturbing the peace.
They will be sentenced on June 20, 2012.
Reiong, Tipingeni, and Sansi were accused of beating store clerk Xiao Ping Tudela using butane cans, even as Tudela lay unconscious inside the Dhaka Store in Chalan Kanoa.
In addition, Sansi was accused of assaulting Amin Nurul who was in the store at the time.
Assistant attorneys general Nicole Driscoll and Darren Robinson prosecuted the case.
Attorney Ramon Quichocho is counsel for Reiong. Attorneys Joaquin Torres and Michael Evangelista are court-appointed counsels for Sansi and Tipingeni respectively.
Tudela testified how the suspects started beating her up when she confronted co-defendant Cheroleen Ray for slamming the telephone on its console in the morning of Aug. 8, 2011.
When a police officer responded to the store, Tudela was found lying in a pool of blood on the floor.
Ray and another co-defendant, Mark Rudolph, had already entered a guilty plea and were subsequently sentenced.
