Man gets 7-year probation for meter tampering

Posted on Jul 26 2011

Superior Court presiding judge Robert C. Naraja has imposed a seven-year probation on a man who tampered with a power meter and did not pay $6,600 worth of electricity.

Naraja on Monday sentenced Francisco M. Sanchez to six months in prison, all suspended, for a count of theft of utility services.

Sanchez was ordered to pay $6,658.38 in restitution to the Commonwealth Utilities Corp., a $750 fine, a $700 probation fee, and a $25 court fee.

Sanchez and counsel, chief public defender Adam Hardwicke, signed a plea agreement with the government. Assistant attorney general Eileen Wisor appeared for the government.

The judge also required Sanchez to write a letter of apology to CUC and the people of the CNMI and submit the letter to newspaper editors for publication.

The plea agreement stated that on October 2006 to November 2010 on Saipan, Sanchez, after having been disconnected by CUC, tampered with his meter such that power was restored illegally.

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