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Agulto’s jury trial to begin this week
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Posted on Sep 28 2020
The jury trial of Roman “Roach” Agulto, who is charged with two counts of illegal possession of a controlled substance, is set to start this week.
Agulto’s trial was supposed to begin last Monday but the Superior Court pushed it to October, which starts later this week.
According to court documents, two police officers were on routine patrol in Susupe on Nov. 24, 2018, when they came across Agulto’s vehicle and drove behind it. Agulto, upon seeing the police vehicle, turned left on Pachinko Ave. from Tupak Street. When the officers turned onto Pachinko Ave. they found Agulto’s vehicle stopped in the middle of the southbound lane. Police momentarily halted behind Agulto’s vehicle when he reversed approximately 20 feet on the highway toward the officers’ vehicle, nearly hitting it. Agulto then drove a few feet forward, making a west-facing right turn into a residence on Pachinko Ave. with police right behind him. Police said Agulto rolled down his window and raised both his hands. He then gunned his engine and took off, prompting the police officers to activate their police emergency light and went after him. Later the officers found Agulto’s vehicle parked along Bakke St. and Agulto hiding in the bushes. After calling Agulto out and placing him in handcuffs, police searched the immediate area and found one headlamp and a case that contained small clear Ziploc bags that held a crystalline substance, and one glass tube pipe with crystalline substance residue in it. When asked about it, Agulto said it was not his.
Police also found other drug paraphernalia in Agulto’s vehicle, including 110 clear Ziploc bags containing a crystal-like substance, and a branch of what was believed to have been marijuana.
