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BECQ staff in burglary case allowed to post property bond
The Superior Court has allowed a staff of the Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality who is facing charges of burglarizing the house of his two co-workers to post a property bond.
Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho granted last seek BECQ environmental specialist Elmer John D. Sablan’s motion to modify his $100,000 cash bail by allowing him instead to post a $100,000 property bond.
Sablan was placed under house arrest and released to his wife as third-party custodian.
Among the conditions require him to stay away from poker parlors and pawnshops, and subject to drug test. He is allowed to leave the house only if accompanied by his wife.
Sablan will be arraigned today, Monday.
Camacho early last week found probable cause to find that burglary, theft, and conspiracy were committed and that Sablan and co-defendant Larry M. Sugiyama may have committed these offenses.
According to police detective Francisco Iginoef, Sablan and Sugiyama burglarized a house being rented by Saipan runner Steven Johnson and his girlfriend, Kaitlin Mattos. At that time, the couple had a guest triathlete from the Philippines.
Iginoef said that Sablan and Sugiyama confessed that they were involved in the burglary on April 17, 2014, and that they sold the items they stole to different people.
Police later recovered some of the stolen items during follow-up investigation.
According to Johnson’s guest, she went jogging before 9am but she did not lock the front door. When she returned before 9:40am, she noticed that some items, including her iPhone, were missing.
Sugiyama told police that it was Sablan’s idea to burglarize the house in Chalan Kiya because he lost his paycheck after playing poker at Lucky 7 Poker in Susupe.
