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Woman pleads guilty to stealing Rolex watch, ring
Emerita Quitano Camacho abruptly pleaded guilty yesterday on the second day of her jury trial in Superior Court to stealing a $15,000 Rolex watch and a $500 heirloom ring from a then-74-year-old relative with disabilities.
Before the jury trial resumed yesterday morning, the 43-year-old Camacho, who was with her court-appointed counsel, Steven Pixley, cried as she pleaded guilty to the offense of felony theft.
Associate Judge Teresa Kim-Tenorio accepted Camacho’s guilty plea and set the sentencing for Jan. 6, 2015.
Kim-Tenorio ordered the Office of Adult Probation to prepare a presentence investigation report.
The judge remanded Camacho into the custody of the Department of Corrections pending her sentencing.
Assistant attorneys general Heather Barcinas and Chester Hinds represented the government at the trial.
On the first day of trial on Monday, the prosecution called to the stand four witnesses, including the victim, who is now 75 and on a wheelchair.
Police detective Catherine Pangelinan, who is the officer-in-charge of the case, was supposed to continue her testimony yesterday.
Camacho’s co-defendant, Frank Tudela Pangelinan, pleaded guilty in September to receiving stolen property. He was slapped with a nine-month prison term, with credit for 86 days of time served.
Camacho reportedly went to the victim’s house in Tanapag last Jan. 15 and 16 and stole her Rolex watch and Hawaiian heirloom ring, which is engraved with the owner’s nickname.
On April 10, 2014, police searched the YTT Gold Jewelry Pawnshop in Garapan where an invoice, dated Jan. 16, 2014, was recovered. The invoice indicated that the gold Rolex watch in question was pawned at the shop that day for $2,000.
The pawnshop’s president told police that Frank Pangelinan returned on Jan. 4, 2014, and gave the shop $2,000, including the interest. The Rolex watch was released to Frank Pangelinan.
