mv-Monday November 26, 2007 By Cherrie Anne E. Villahermosa Variety News Staff
THREE other La Fiesta Mall copper wire suspects have been arrested and were brought to Superior Court last week.
Associate Judge David A. Wiseman signed a seal order on two of the suspects on Friday afternoon.
Only the case of Jeff C. Magofna, 26, was not sealed.
He and the two other suspects were arrested on Thursday and brought to court for a bail hearing on Friday afternoon.
Magofna and the two other suspects were remanded to the custody of the Department of Corrections after the hearing.
The three were ordered to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on Nov. 30 and arraignment was set for Dec. 3.
The identity of the suspects was revealed to the authorities when their co-defendant, 18-year-old John Santos Jr., was arrested on Tuesday after he was caught at the La Fiesta III building in San Roque with individuals who were loading copper wire into a pickup truck.
Santos, the son of Department of Public Safety Boating Safety commander Sgt. Bernard Santos, was placed under house arrest and released from custody through a third party custodian.
The government said Santos cooperated with the ongoing investigation and identified the individuals as Magofna and the two other suspects.
Magofna was arrested for criminal mischief and theft.
DPS stated that a police detective was doing a routine patrol at the La Fiesta III building in San Roque on Tuesday at 1 p.m. when he saw a green Toyota pickup truck parked near the building and two men loading rolls of copper wire into the bed of the truck.
When the officer approached them, two suspects fled on foot along with another suspect who had been in the building.
The responding officer was able to detain the fourth suspect, John T. Santos, who was acting as a lookout.
Police discovered that an undetermined amount of copper wire had been cut from the former shopping mall.
DPS said they recovered 15 rolls of copper wires from the truck.
ROLLING BLACK OUT"S
OUTAGE November 19, 2007...lower dandan.
OUTAGE November 20th, schedule to go off in some parts of the Island.
OUTAGE November 21th, 2007 HITS KAGMAN
EMERGENCY BLACKOUT HITS SAIPAN November 21st, 2007 5pm without announcement.
ROTATING BLACKOUTS ARE BACK November 23rd, 2007
Feeder 4 - 1 in the morning and another from 7pm-9pm.
OUTAGE: November 25th, 2007
Feeder 4 - 1 at midnight and another at 7-9pm.
OUTAGE: November 26th, 2007
Susupe, Feeder 4 7-9pm & midnight for 2 hours.
OUTAGE: November 27th, 2007
Feeder 4 morning hours
HERE WE GO AGAIN
Local Sunday, March 30, 2008
Fate of power rate repeal now lies with Senate
By Agnes E. Donato
Reporter
House members are counting on the Senate to pass a bill repealing a law that reduced power rates in the Commonwealth.
Rep. Tina Sablan, one of bill's sponsors, said yesterday that passing the bill is a difficult political decision, but it “needs to be done.”
“I am hopeful that they [senators] will see the gravity of the situation and act expeditiously,” Sablan said in an interview yesterday.
Rep. Heinz Hofschneider, also a sponsor of the bill, expressed the same hope. “Everyday that we don't act to repeal that law means CUC will continue to burden the general fund,” he said.
House Bill 16-79 passed the Lower House with a 17-1 vote on Thursday. Rep. Stanley T. Torres voted against the bill. Representatives Oscar M. Babauta and Ralph Torres were not present.
The bill proposes to repeal Public Law 15-94, which forced power rates down to 17 cents per kWh in October 2007, and reduced or scrapped other charges for residential customers.
The law, compounded by the rising cost of fuel, has caused the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. to face a shortfall of about $1 million each month for fuel alone.
Due to the shortfall, CUC for instance failed to pay for a full 30-day fuel supply last month. Power outages are now occurring partly because CUC is stretching to last for 30 days the 23-day supply that it managed to purchase.
Hofschneider said that the repealer bill would not only allow CUC to pay for full fuel deliveries, but also reduce government subsidy to the utility.
In addition, Sablan argued, the customers would not lose much if P.L. 15-94 was repealed. The law, she noted, has not been of any real benefit to the customers, since emergency regulations were adopted to give CUC flexibility in setting the fuel component of the power rates.
House Bill 16-79 will become law once approved by the Senate and signed by the governor.
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