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Officials say drug paraphernalia and file cards with the names and preferred sexual activity of clients were also found at Grace House yesterday.
Ted Domay, president of Grace House Association, says the raid was overkill. He defends the halfway house program director who was arrested, and says the halfway house has never had a major problem.
Sheriff's Department administrator Ernie Moritomo says the raid was done based on information received in the last two weeks.
In a lawsuit filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Honolulu, Susan E. McPherson said when she reported the incident to the department last year, nothing was done.
McPherson, now 50 and still working as a dispatcher, has been receiving medical help from a clinical psychologist as a result of the incident, her attorney Clayton Ikei said.
Maui Deputy Police Chief Thomas Phillips said the department has not seen the lawsuit and declined to comment. Tihada, who retired last month in the face of allegations -- including another reported sex harassment case in 1992 -- was unavailable for comment yesterday. But he has said that he's innocent.
Cayetano has rejected revised rules that would require the disclosure in Environmental Impact Statements, the detailed reports required of major projects needing governmental approvals.
But members of the Environmental Council, updating EIS administrative rules last revised a decade ago, are standing by their proposed revision.
The 15-member council and the Office of Environmental Quality Control last fall held statewide public hearings as part of a review of EIS rules and received overwhelming testimony to changes that strengthen and clarify requirements to evaluate cultural effects. Those amendments were included in a final draft submitted to the governor this spring, but Cayetano refused to sign them until all references to cultural impact were deleted.
By Star-Bulletin staff
The victim, 33, allegedly parked at 5:45 p.m. in the stall, which is assigned to his mother but leased to the golf shop during the day, police said.
Officers arrested the employee and recovered the handgun.
The woman, 36, locked herself in a room following the 3 a.m. incident and apparently couldn't call for help until 7:30 p.m., police said. A steak knife was recovered at the Republican Street home.