Newswatch
By Star-Bulletin Staff
Tuesday, October 8, 1996
According to a report by the Office of Council Services, the city has expended or encumbered $10.8 million in "predevelopment" costs. Developer Waldron Ventures is supposed to pay the city an $8 million "premium" for development rights.
Based on those numbers, the city would come up short $2.8 million despite the insistence by Mayor Jeremy Harris that the city is not spending taxpayer money to put up the housing project.
Meanwhile, Waldron Ventures has asked that a City Council decision on a lease, development agreement and quitclaim deed be withdrawn so it conduct "more due diligence work." The request was slated for today's Zoning Committee meeting.
City Housing Director Roland Libby said the $10.8 million figure cited by Council Services doesn't reflect expenses.
The city spent closer to $8.3 million, he said.
"It's hard to get a fix on a precise number," Libby said.
So Reed told a Circuit Court judge yesterday, saying she stabbed him in self-defense. Reed, 21, faces second-
degree murder for stabbing Charles Reed Jr., also 21, in their Waikele apartment Feb. 22.
"He had the knife and my hair, trying to cut my hair," Reed testified in tears. He then put the knife to her neck, she said.
"I was too terrified. He said: 'I'm going to kill you' xxx I saw death in his eyes and he didn't care. I pushed him back and I stabbed him."
Reed said she didn't intend to kill her husband and was shocked when he followed her out of the house and collapsed.
Reed was on the witness stand yesterday and returns today to answer questions by deputy Prosecutor Glenn Kim, who said two statements to police and her testimony yesterday contained "major and significant inconsistencies."
Reed described her nine-month marriage to her soldier husband as one of violent beatings and control in which Charles Reed would not let her drive the car or give her money to buy essentials like diapers for her baby son.
Defense attorney Paul Cunney has called the killing "a classic case of self-defense, bolstered by battered-woman syndrome."
That guiding principle of the Boy Scouts is guiding them into a new arena: crimefighting.
The Aloha Council of the Boy Scouts today kicked off its war on crime, announcing a new crime prevention merit badge and a multipronged approach to nipping the problem early.
"We're not looking to make them into small policemen," said Aloha Council spokeswoman Leslie Hutchings. "We're more into teaching them how not to become a victim, to make them aware. ... We're also letting the kids know that scouting is a good alternative to joining a gang."
The Scouts' national crime prevention program focuses on four areas: youth, family, community and the Scouting unit.
Youth members of the Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Explorers and Learning for Life will learn to settle arguments with words, how to report crimes and how to make neighborhoods safer, Hutchings said.
Working with their families, Scouts will discuss crime prevention and demonstrate basic safety and crime prevention techniques, she said.
Participants will set up neighborhood crime watch groups within their communities and organize McGruff programs for children in elementary school.
Units will conduct safety seminars and monitor youth participation and completion of crime prevention projects, Hutchings said.
At 2:36 a.m., firefighters were called to a structure fire at 2128 Kalakaua Ave. The blaze may have been set in a trash chute.
At 4:02 a.m., firefighters responded to a fire in the parking garage at 250 Lewers St.
Tafilele Mika, 22, of Honolulu, died upon arrival at Queen's Hospital.
He was part of a group of people who were chased from the nightclub toward Cannery Row warehouses at 500 Alakawa St. by another group. Police found the victim lying on the road.
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