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DPS gets many tips on storage room burglary
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Posted on Feb 07 2006
The Department of Public Safety has received several promising leads on who stole the 63 boxes of disaster relief supplies worth $50,400 from the storage room of the Emergency Management Office on Capitol Hill.
DPS Criminal Investigation Bureau chief Maj. Edward H. Manalili, in a telephone interview with the Saipan Tribune yesterday late afternoon, expressed optimism that investigators would immediately solve the case.
“I think we can crack this case right away,” Manalili said, hinting that his men “are out there right now.”
“We have been receiving information that hopefully will help us in cracking this case,” the major said.
The CIB chief also thanked the Saipan Tribune for coming up with the story about the burglary.
He said that, after the article was published on Tuesday, they received many calls that turned out to be “very positive.”
On Friday afternoon, EMO acting director Gregorio A. Deleon Guerrero reported to DPS about the break-in that occurred at their storage room, which used to be occupied by the Marianas Public Lands Authority.
The disaster relief packages, worth $800 each, were reportedly among the 130 boxes donated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency when a supertyphoon battered the CNMI sometime in 1998.
Each box contained a tent, lantern, portable stove, cooking pot, fire extinguisher, and first aid kit, EMO said.
