Newswatch

By Star-Bulletin Staff

Monday, May 11, 1998

Hospice Hawaii offers memorial services

Hospice Hawaii invites the public to three nondenominational memorial services this week to honor loved ones who have died.

Candle-lighting and lei-making will be featured at the 6 p.m. services tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday.

The events will allow processing of grief in a group while respecting individual privacy, said Hospice Hawaii.

Tomorrow's service will be at He'eia State Park in Kaneohe.

The Wednesday service will be at the Hospice Hawaii office, 860 Iwilei Road, while Thursday's service will be at Pokai Bay Beach Park, Waianae.

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Police/Fire


By Star-Bulletin staff

2 shot by police will be
checked for use of drugs

By Rod Ohira, Star-Bulletin

Police plan to subpoena hospital blood tests for two men shot by police in separate incidents last week to determine if the men were under the influence of drugs.

Detective Gary Winterbottom expects to have results by midweek.

Crystal methamphetamine was found in a car driven by Mark Harriman, who was shot Thursday in Kapahulu, police said. They also said marijuana and crystal meth were discovered in Fortunato "Junior" Barques III's sports utility vehicle.

Barques was shot twice in the back by a patrol officer at a Pupukea heiau Tuesday.

Harriman was released from Queen's Hospital Saturday and arrested on a parole retake warrant. He is being held at the Oahu Community Correctional Center.

Winterbottom said attempted murder, criminal property damage and auto theft charges are pending against Harriman. Barques is in critical condition in Queen's Hospital.

Police are also investigating Barques for an assault earlier this year involving his girlfriend, who was with him at the heiau Tuesday. The critically injured woman was dropped off at Kahuku Hospital on Feb. 15, police said. She refused to cooperate with police at the time.

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Maui blaze consumes just-purchased home

WAILUKU -- A fire destroyed a house in Wailuku Heights home this morning, causing an estimated $102,000 in damages to the house and contents.

Assistant Fire Chief Richard Fernandez said the three-bedroom house at 3050 Alaneo Place, located in an older section of the heights, had just been bought by Nelson Ferreira and was unoccupied.

Fernandez said firefighters had the fire under control 30 minutes after receiving the call at 3:08 a.m. and extinguished the blaze in a little more than an hour and 45 minutes. He said fire officials were at the scene this morning trying to determine the cause of the blaze.

Alcohol a possible factor in fatal crash

A 43-year-old Wahiawa man was killed and another was injured yesterday when a car and a van collided on Kunia Road.

It was Oahu's 22nd traffic fatality this year.

Police said speed and alcohol are possible factors.

The accident was reported at 6:25 p.m.

In other news . . .

A 21-year-old man was in critical condition at Queen's Hospital this morning after his motorcycle crashed on Kaukonahua Road at 3:05 p.m. yesterday.

Police have charged Robert Williams, 42, of Waianae with rape and other offenses. He is being held in lieu of $200,000 bail.

HILO -- Police are looking for a gunman who shot two men early yesterday. One man, 24, of Hilo, suffered a scalp wound and was treated at Hilo Medical Center.

Another man, 20, was shot in the leg, but the bullet ricocheted off an item in his pants pocket and he wasn't hurt, police said.

HILO -- Police are looking for two teen-agers and a younger boy who robbed a pizza delivery man about 9:55 p.m. yesterday. Police were told the robbers were armed with a sawed-off shotgun.

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