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Criminal case is dismissed
OAG fails to file charging document
For the government’s failure to file a charging document by the deadline, Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho dismissed yesterday the criminal charges against a man who allegedly received a stolen 30-inch flat screen TV.
At a supposed preliminary hearing, Camacho dismissed without prejudice the case against 28-year-old Shane Joseph Aldan and ordered his release from the custody of the Department of Corrections.
Dismissed without prejudice means the Office of the Attorney General can re-file the case in the future.
Camacho dismissed the case because the OAG failed to follow the rules that require the government to file the charging information within 10 days.
Present in court were Aldan and his counsel, assistant public defender Michael Sato. Assistant attorney general Clayton Graef appeared for the government.
Department of Public Safety police officers were also in court and ready to testify.
Police recently arrested Aldan for conspiracy and theft, and Michael Jesse Aguon Manalo, 21, for theft.
Aldan failed to post a $10,000 cash bail so his preliminary hearing was supposedly set yesterday.
Police detective Catherine B. Pangelinan stated in her report that it was Manalo’s mother herself who called police last Dec. 1 to disclose that her son stole his grandmother’s TV.
Pangelinan said Manalo admitted that he took the TV from the room that belongs to his grandmother and gave it to Aldan in exchange for methamphetamine or “ice.”
The grandmother has been renting the TV from Dial Rent-To-Own.
