Teen pleads 'no contest' in March stabbing
A 17-year-old Village Park boy charged as an adult for attempted murder in the March 29 stabbing of another teen pleaded no contest this morning to a reduced charge of second-degree assault.Jacob Dano, who defense experts has said thinks like a child, stabbed the other teen twice in the groin and once in the inner thigh.
Dano faces up to five years in prison when he is sentenced March 9 before Circuit Judge Wendell Huddy. A Family Court judge in June waived jurisdiction over Dano, then 16.
Deputy Prosecutor Joseph Lee today said the state could argue for incarceration at sentencing.
Defense lawyer Hayden Aluli said the prosecution also has the option of asking that Dano be sentenced as a youthful offender, which would mean about a year less in prison time.
The defense, however, will be asking for probation so that Dano, who is borderline mentally retarded, can get needed special education programs, Aluli said.
Dano will also be sentenced for an unrelated assault on another teen.
Man who left hospital on Friday is returned
A 43-year-old man who left the Hawaii State Hospital grounds Friday without permission is back at the Kaneohe facility.Family members returned Israel Gilo to the facility on Saturday after he went to a relative's home.
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffPolice catch suspect who escaped on Oct. 8
Police today arrested a fugitive wanted for robbery who has been at large since Oct. 8, when he escaped from a patrol car at District Court.Kimokeo Reed, 21, was arrested at 1:10 a.m. about a block away from the Waianae police station. He is being held in lieu of $20,000 on the robbery warrant but faces other charges, including escape, police said.
After his court escape, Reed managed to elude police again on Oct. 22 following a traffic stop.
He fled again from police early today after being seen in Waianae but was later arrested in a parking lot near the police station.
Suspect in robbery of cabbie is charged
Police charged a 43-year-old man with robbing a cab driver at knifepoint early yesterday in lower Nuuanu.Christopher Street is being held in lieu of $50,000 bail. He allegedly robbed an 18-year-old cab driver of $80 while holding a knife to the man's neck at 2:30 a.m.
Street fled from the cab at Nuuanu Avenue and Vineyard Boulevard but was captured shortly after in the Nuuanu Shopping Center parking lot, police said.
Nanakuli man booked in beating of wife, son
Multiple felony charges are pending against a Nanakuli man who allegedly assaulted his wife and teen-age son Friday during a domestic dispute.The woman, 33, was treated at the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center for four fractured ribs, a broken collarbone and multiple contusions, police said.
The boy was allegedly punched in the face when he tried to stop his father from punching and kicking his mother.
The man, 34, was booked for second-degree assault, kidnapping and abuse of a household member. He allegedly beat his wife after she had allowed their daughter to use the family truck, police said.
In other news . . .
The medical examiner's office has identified Eva M.R. Cosier of Waimanalo as the woman killed in Friday's crash of a mini-sport utility vehicle on the H-1 Freeway near the Palama Street off-ramp.
Two people crewing the Credimus from Vancouver to San Francisco were hoisted off the boat by a Coast Guard helicopter in August. Since then the boat suffered damage to its mast and deck, but was otherwise in good condition, the Coast Guard said.
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