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A federal grand jury have charged Clean Earth Products Company Ltd. and President Dan Fredrickson with 13 counts of falsifying federally mandated sewage test reports and 13 counts of mail fraud.
If convicted, Fredrickson could face up to 91 years in jail and $6.5 million in fines. Clean Earth Products could be subject to as much as $13 million in fines.
Clean Earth is the first company to face criminal charges for allegedly violating the city's wastewater pretreatment program, which regulates industries that put pollutants into the sewer system.
The indictment said Clean Earth Products falsified a series of tests performed for Dobbs International Services - an airline flight kitchen company - which was required to have its sewage tested to meet federal standards. Dobbs, unaware of the falsification, sent the reports from January through November 1995 to the city, according to the indictment.
The head of the state's community colleges says she is surprised that a majority of students needing such help are graduates of public high schools.
Public school officials say the University of Hawaii is not training as many teachers as they need.
Those issues were among several discussed yesterday at an unusual meeting of the Board of Education and UH Board of Regents.
Police especially want to talk with people who saw Henderson after leaving the University of Hawaii at 4 p.m. Friday, said homicide Lt. Allen Napoleon.
His decomposing body was found Wednesday in an Ilikai apartment. A homicide investigation is under way, but Napoleon declined to disclose details at a news conference yesterday.
Declining to be specific, Napoleon said there was "personal handwriting" on the body.
The body reportedly had writing scrawled on it saying Henderson was a child molester.
He died at St. Francis-West Hospital shortly after the 3:11 a.m. crash on Fort Weaver Road, police said.
The motorcycle had been reported stolen from Mililani a couple of days ago, police dispatchers said.
The 24-year-old, of Uhrichsville, Ohio, is a field radio operator assigned to Headquarters Company, 3rd Marine Regiment, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe. He was taken into custody by Naval Criminal Investigative Service agents July 3, the Marine Corps said.
He joined the Marines in November 1993 and has been at Kaneohe since June 1994. Hearings equivalent to civilian grand jury proceedings are set for the other four suspects, all lance corporals, on July 29 and 31 and Aug. 2 and 5.
Guerrero was killed May 7. He reportedly was bound with tape, taken to Nuuanu Pali Drive and shot in the head. Guerrero's decomposed body was found June 3 in Nuuanu.
He was booked for burglary and assault on a police officer who suffered minor scratches.
Fort Street Mall security called police after a video camera showed a man smashing the service window of the downtown restaurant just before midnight.
Officers located the suspect in the basement. He had eight chicken pot pies warming in the oven and coleslaw and bread ready to go, police said.
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