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Ex-CBP office’s sentencing set for tomorrow
Former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer Bob Hajime Deleon Guerrero Yamagishi will be taken to federal court tomorrow to be sentenced after being pleading guilty to two counts of wire fraud.
U.S. District Court for the NMI Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona set the sentencing at 10:30am.
Under the plea agreement entered by Yamagishi and the U.S. government, the sentencing guidelines range is zero to six months imprisonment.
The U.S. government and defense attorney Janet H. King earlier requested to continue the sentencing for Nov. 30, 2015, citing that the initial presentence report was submitted less than 35 days before the scheduled sentencing date of Oct. 30, 2015.
Manglona granted the request to delay, but set the sentencing for tomorrow.
Manglona said Yamagishi has been in custody since Oct. 7, 2015, when his pretrial release was revoked.
The judge said it does not serve the ends of justice to delay unnecessarily the sentencing of a convicted person who is accumulating jail time when there is a realistic possibility that he will not be sentenced to any period of incarceration.
Yamagishi pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud by wire after making illegal cash advance transaction on a travel charge card between July 4 and Aug. 7, 2014. As then, CBP officer, he made illegal cash advance transactions 28 times in July 2014 and nine times in August 2014, for a total amount of $6,227.53, according to the indictment.
