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Estate denies stalling state's investigation
The Kamehameha Schools disagrees with the attorney general's charge that the $6 billion trust is obstructing its investigation into investment losses allegedly incurred by the charity's former trustees.The estate said it has provided the attorney general's office with more than 250,000 pages of documents and has given state investigators access to an additional 700 boxes of files.
"There is and has been a wealth of information in the hands of the attorney general," the trust said.
"Any criticism directed at the interim trustees for ... delay ignores court orders and good faith efforts by the interim trustees to cooperate."
Yesterday, the attorney general's office filed court papers seeking a one-year trial delay for their suit to surcharge former trustees Henry Peters, Richard "Dickie" Wong, Oswald Stender, Lokelani Lindsey and Gerard Jervis. The suit had been scheduled to go to trial Sept. 18.
The state, which alleges that the trust suffered as much as $200 million in losses during the former board members' tenure, said that the Kamehameha Schools' current interim board obstructed numerous requests for information, delaying the discovery process by as much as a year.
Bishop Estate Archive
State report tracks fall and rise in drug arrests
Hawaii drug arrests declined 4.1 percent from 1982 to 1998, a state attorney general's report says.The report shows drug possession arrests fell 10.9 percent in those years -- but that arrests for manufacture and sale of illegal drugs increased by 39.7 percent.
Total drug offense arrests increased sharply from 1982 to 1985, but have since shown relatively steady decreases, according to the report.
Adult drug arrests reached a record low level in 1998.
The latest figures available show that on a per-capita basis, drug arrests were disproportionately low on Oahu.
With 73.1 percent of Hawaii's population, Oahu had 63.1 percent of drug arrests made in 1998.
Maui County, with 10.1 percent of the state population, had 16.6 percent of the arrests.
The Big Island, with 12 percent of Hawaii's population, had 15.5 percent of the arrests.
Kauai, with 4.7 percent of the population in 1998, reported 4.5 percent of the drug arrests.
Cayetano OKs funding for ceded lands tally
Gov. Ben Cayetano has approved a measure that would provide up to $500,000, which would be matched by $250,000 from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, for an inventory of ceded lands.Another new law approved by the governor would allow county police chiefs to seize firearms and ammunition when a person is denied a firearm permit or is disqualified from owning one.
Isle girl misses one at D.C. spelling bee
Heidi K. Maeda made it through two rounds before missing the word "limnology" in the third round yesterday of the 2000 Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee.The 73rd national spelling bee, conducted in Washington, D.C., started yesterday with 248 students and continues today.
Maeda, an eighth-grader at Kawananako Middle School, was competing as the Hawaii state champion.
Corrections
A headline Saturday on a story about the test kitchen at the new Agricultural Science Building at the University of Hawaii included the figure of $27 million. That figure referred to the cost of the building -- not the test kitchen, as the headline indicated.
Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
Body of slain Maui woman is identified
WAILUKU -- The 46-year-old homeless woman whose body was found at Baldwin Beach Park on Maui has been identified as Nancy E. Sirovitz.Deputy Police Chief Kekuhaupio Akana said Sirovitz, also known as Nancy Morrison, had been homeless on Maui for at least two years. Akana said family members were expected to arrive this week. Her body was found near the park pavilion around 4:36 a.m. on May 24 by a passing driver.
A sarong was tightly tied around Sirovitz's neck, police said.
Being held without bail and charged with second-degree murder is Dennis R. Love, 60.
Love also is charged with robbing Sirovitz and attacking two police officers with a metal pipe.
Three suspects sought in Kaheka Street robbery
Police were searching for three suspects in an armed robbery of a Kaheka Street apartment in Honolulu last night.Nine women were were confronted by three suspects at their unit at 909 Kaheka St. at about 11:40 p.m., police said. They were tied up with duct tape and robbed of their money and valuables.
Police would not comment if the apartment was connected to any illegal activities. The suspects, wearing black clothes and ski masks, were armed with handguns and a hammer, police said.
Suspect in Manoa Valley robbery in custody
A 26-year-old man is in custody in connection with the robbery of a Manoa Valley home in April.The suspect, accompanied by a woman, entered a Waakaua Street home on April 24 and allegedly stole a purse from the female resident, police said.
Children who died in water incidents ID'd
A 17-month-old boy who apparently drowned in a residential pool in Kailua Tuesday has been identified as Stepmann Chang of Anoi Road, Kaneohe.A 3-year-old girl who died after being pulled from waters off Waikiki's Kuhio Beach has been identified as Faivalu Mafi of Lakewood, Calif.
Unattended candle started house fire
A $275,000 fire that destroyed one home and damaged another just below Aloha Stadium Tuesday night resulted from an unattended candle in a bedroom, the fire department said.Six fire companies responded to the 9:15 p.m. alarm at 99-241 Ohialomi Place. A home next door at 99-239 Ohialomi Place suffered approximately $40,000 damage.
A fire Saturday night on Hanawai Circle in Waipahu, which gutted a three-bedroom home and caused lesser damage to a nearby apartment building, was blamed on an electrical short in the kitchen. The fire caused $220,000 in damage.
Hauula man stabbed with fishing spear
An apparent love triangle led to a man being stabbed in the arm with a three-pronged fishing spear last night, police said.The suspect is the estranged husband of the victim's present girlfriend, police said. The attack occurred in the driveway of the 25-year-old woman's home in the Kahana Beach area, where the victim was working on his car, police said.
The victim escaped from the suspect and made his way about a mile south to Swanzy Beach Park. He called police from there shortly after 7 p.m. The Hauula man, 31, was not seriously injured and refused treatment.
The suspect, 30, also from Hauula, is being sought for second-degree assault and first-degree terroristic threatening.
