Credit cards and at least one tax refund stolen from a Mangilao mail cluster box led to a federal investigation and warrant, and possibly a criminal case in the U.S. District Court of Guam that remains under seal.
On March 23, a woman complained to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) that a credit card she ordered was stolen, according to a recently-unsealed application for a federal tracking warrant. She ordered the card on March 16. Tracking information showed it was delivered to her cluster mail box unit in Mangilao. She made the complaint after she saw account activity showing someone used the card at Mobil in Maite.
A USPIS task force agent pulled footage from the gas station the day after the woman made the complaint, and saw “an unknown individual in a black Toyota Corolla using the stolen credit card to purchase fuel for multiple vehicles.”
The woman ordered a replacement card on April 5. Again, the card was stolen, and the thief or thieves used the card multiple times at different gas stations.
The federal agent pulled surveillance footage at each of the gas stations and noticed the same male exiting the same black Toyota Corolla before making the fraudulent transactions. The agent caught a break while reviewing one of the videos.
According to the search warrant application, surveillance footage shows he “exits the driver’s side of the vehicle, inserts the stolen credit [card]. and then opens the trunk of the subject vehicle. Once the trunk is opened, the affiant can see the Guam license plate of TL 5294.”
Official records show the Corolla belongs to Kathy Manglona, whose registered address is 288A Blas Street, Leyang, Barrigada. The investigation shows Lawrence and Lorenzo Manglona also live at that address.
The agent then searched on Facebook and found a profile for Lawrence Manglona “wearing a black hat with a Chicago Bulls emblem that matches the image obtained from the surveillance footage.” He then went to the Leyang home and confirmed the same Toyota Corolla was parked there.
On April 10, five days after the second theft report, Guam Police Department officers contacted the USPIS agent regarding the arrest of repeat offender Jenna Crisostomo “for unrelated charges.” According to the local charges for which Ms. Crisostomo faces trial, police arrested her that day after she led them on a chase and had found a glass pipe with meth residue in it.
She allegedly told officers before being arrested, “Officer, that’s mine, but can you just crack it? That’s embarrassing to get arrested just for a pipe.”
According to the tracking warrant application, GPD contacted the USPIS task force agent because, when they arrested Ms. Crisostomo, she was in possession of a tax refund check that was delivered to the same Mangilao cluster mail box unit.
“When she was asked about the check by GPD, Crisostomo stated that she received the check from Lawrence Manglona,” the application for the tracking warrant states.
Interestingly, the local magistrates report for Ms. Crisostomo does not mention the check police found in her possession, nor was she charged with theft in that alleged criminal event. However, six days after the agent applied for the tracking warrant, which was approved by the court, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Guam and the CNMI filed a criminal case in federal court. That case remains under seal.
Ms. Crisostomo has a lengthy criminal record, including three convictions, one of which was for felony assault. Her record includes another seven arrests by police, including two this year and three in 2021 alone.
She was arrested just last week following a high speed chase, along with co-defendant Malcolm Chaco, who also has a lengthy criminal record.
