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Teen arrested many times for violent crimes
Police arrested on Friday a male teenager who allegedly assaulted several persons, including a minor and a nurse at the Commonwealth Health Center.
Police served 18-year-old Cling Phillip Gilbert Kaipat with an arrest warrant for assault and battery, domestic violence, and disturbing the peace.
Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho retained the $10,000 cash bail the court earlier imposed on him.
Preliminary hearing will be on April 22 at 9am. Chief Public Defender Douglas Hartig was appointed as counsel for the suspect.
Police detective Jesus K. Wabol stated in his report that a police officer responded to a call about an assault and battery incident at a residence behind Oleai Store last April 6 at 9:55pm. The officer met with a man who claimed that Kaipat beat him up.
The man had a swollen and lacerated left eye and bloodied left ear. Medics brought the victim to the hospital.
Wabol learned that Kaipat had entered the victim’s house and ate their food. When the victim confronted him, Kaipat punched him in the face and head.
Police also learned that a day before the incident, Kaipat also punched the victim’s 12-year-old son in the face for no apparent reason.
Wabol said Kaipat was also arrested last Feb. 12 for slapping a man in the face thrice and cussing at him along the pathway across J’s Restaurant in Chalan Lau Lau.
Six days later, Wabol said, a doctor at the Commonwealth Health Center called police after Kaipat allegedly punched a nurse in the stomach and threatened to chop his head off. At the time, Kaipat was a patient at CHC’s psychiatric ward.
Wabol said police also arrested Kaipat last Feb. 26, this time for damaging the door of an apartment and the rear passenger door of a vehicle.
Last March 31, Kaipat was arrested for criminal trespass at Marianas High School.
Last April 4, he was arrested for disturbing the peace and resisting arrest.
