In July, over $6,000 Palau Public Utility Corporation (PPUC) money was reported to be missing, the Criminal Investigation Division has now registered a case of theft against a PPUC employee. Jesse Edward who works at PPUC plead not guilty in his arraignment on August 20 and is out on bail of $500 after he was […]
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Woman gets 25-year imprisonment for meth trafficking
Woman who was caught at the Palau airport arrivals for possessing meth in her body got sentenced to 25 years imprisonment and a fine of $50,000. Happy Fritz, 39, carried 50 grams of methamphetamine in her body while entering Palau from Manila, Philippines on Saturday. Fritz is ordered to serve first ten years in the […]
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Court finds President’s Chief Security Officer guilty of money laundering, theft
As of Tuesday this week, Presidents Chief Security Officer Clifton Soalablai has been found guilty on counts of theft of a government property and money laundering. Soalablai has not yet been sentenced and the sentencing hearing was set for September 12. However as Special Prosecutor is scheduled to have an off-island training on September 12, […]
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Not aware of complete check deposit procedures via ATM prior to the case: Bank of Guam employees
As the trial for couple accused of money laundering and theft of government property began, the testimonies of Bank of Guam employees revealed that they were not aware of complete ATM procedures prior to the current case. In June, Clifton Soalablai, who was President’s Chief Security Guard along with Soalablai’s wife Margie Ngirmidol, were charged […]
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29 killed in 2 US shootings, and it could have been worse
It took just 30 seconds in Ohio and zero bullets in Texas for officers to stop two mass shooters this weekend, but not before 29 people were killed and about 50 injured in less than 24 hours. Officers gunned down the Ohio shooter at the doorstep of a bar-turned-hiding place in the middle of Dayton’s […]
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Classmates: Ohio shooter kept a ‘hit list’ and a ‘rape list’
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — High school classmates of the gunman who killed nine people early Sunday in Dayton, Ohio, say he was suspended for compiling a “hit list” of those he wanted to kill and a “rape list” of girls he wanted to sexually assault. The accounts by two former classmates emerged after police said […]