NEW YORK: U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona revoked the pretrial release of former U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Bob Hajime Deleon Guerrero Yamagishi and remanded him to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service pending sentencing.
Yamagishi’s sentencing is set for Oct. 30, 2015. Yamagishi, who was born in 1973, admitted to two counts of wire fraud as a CBP officer with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The U.S. Probation Office previously asked the court to revoke Yamagishi’s pretrial release for smoking “ice” while waiting for his sentencing hearing.
Yamagishi admitted to smoking “ice” on Aug. 6, 2015 after he tested positive for methamphetamine following a urine test on Aug. 11, court records show.
On Aug. 24, Sept. 3, and Sept. 7, he submitted diluted samples for three separate urine tests on those dates, court records show.
On Sept. 17, he reported to the U.S. Probation Office, where he submitted to an observed urinalysis test. Yamagishi tested positive for methamphetamine. He admitted to smoking “ice” on Sept. 14.
After the court advised him of his rights, Yamagishi waived his right to an evidentiary hearing and admitted to the violations in the petition submitted by the U.S. Probation Office.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Garth Backe then asked the court for a revocation of Yamagishi’s pretrial release pending sentencing.
But court-appointed defense attorney Janet King, who represented Yamagishi, asked the court to allow her client to remain on pretrial release, adding they had no objection to placing him on house arrest.
U.S. Probation Officer Margarita Wonenberg recommended that Yamagishi be sanctioned for violating his conditions of pretrial release by imposing home detention instead of curfew as part of his pretrial release.
According to the prosecution, Yamagishi used his CBP-issued travel cash card, even though he knew he had no such authority, to obtain cash so he could gamble and purchase methamphetamine.
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