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"We feel there's enough evidence to substantiate our case" that "Blue Hail" violates the law against promoting pornography for minors, said Capt. Ken Tano of the Narcotics/Vice Division. "The case will be submitted to prosecutors at the end of this week."
As part of the investigation, police interviewed minors who saw the program, he said. The prosecutor's office will decide whether to pursue the charge.
If prosecuted, it would be the first obscenity case since the 1980s, when then-Prosecutor Charles Marsland sought to crack down on video stores selling sexually explicit videotapes. The cases were thrown out by the state Supreme Court, ruling in one instance that prosecutors failed first to show that a contemporary community standard existed and then was violated, and in the other, ruling that the right to privacy prevailed.
But an environmental group says while that might reduce noise at Hawaii Volcanoes, it won't have an effect at Haleakala.
David Leese of Citizens Against Noise of Hawaii said helicopters at Haleakala usually fly outside the park boundary and the noise bounces inside the crater.
Some park officials want to raise the minimum altitude from 1,500 to 3,000 feet over federal parks nationwide. A draft of the rule is scheduled to be completed by Dec. 31.
"All of the noise just spills inside the crater," Leese said.
Milton Pikini, shown here with his wife, Sally,
enjoyed diving when he wasn't working.
"That's soft and melodious, his singing and his life," said Wade Shirkey.
Pikini, a longtime Hawaii Newspaper Agency pressman, lifelong musician and the ukulele player for Shirkey's halau Na Hoaloa Oka Roselani No'eau, apparently drowned Wednesday while diving for squid in waters off Hauula. He was 63.
Honolulu Fire Department rescuers began searching for Pikini about 11 a.m. yesterday after off-duty co-workers, worried because he hadn't reported for work that morning, spotted his parked GMC van in Punaluu and called for help.
Engines from the Keaau station, about eight miles away, responded to the 10:13 a.m. call. The fire was about two blocks from a county fire station, but personnel there were training in another part of the district.
The home, owned by Lily M. Denny and occupied by Alex C. Akina, was insured. An 18-year-old man at the scene was treated for first-degree burns on his right ear, neck and shoulder, the department said.
The suspect, of Kalakaua Avenue, was arrested yesterday at the Oahu Community Correctional Center.
The woman, 42, told police that on Aug. 26, he threatened her at District Court after she testified against him for violating a court order. He called her twice later that day warning her to be careful because he was watching her, police said.
He then called her from OCCC while spending five days there for misdemeanor offenses, saying that upon his release tomorrow, he would get a gun he had bought from a friend, put it to her head and kill her for putting him in jail, police said.
A Big Island man who died early yesterday after his motorcycle ran off Mauna Lani Road has been identified as Keith J. Cambron, 34, of Waikoloa, Big Island police said.
Police seized 6,685 marijuana plants yesterday during a second day of eradication on the coast north of Hilo. In two days of operations, police have seized 14,458 plants.
- Kahului pair arrested in attack on couple
- Teens held in attempt at purse-snatching
- Crestview man cited in threats to wife
- Suspect arrested in man's robbery