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Another Water Main Break
All accidentally freed inmates accounted for
The last of 10 inmates released by mistake from Halawa Correctional Facility on Wednesday was captured last night on Maui.Canisio Wilson, 31, was serving a four-year minimum sentence for kidnapping and sex assault.
He had completed the minimum sentence in August when he was mistakenly released last week, Public Safety Director Ted Sakai said.
Wilson, detained by the Maui sheriff's office, was to be brought back to Halawa today.
Last week, prison officials reported six inmates were released by mistake. All turned themselves in.
On Monday, officials discovered that four more were released by mistake. All 10 were among the 56 inmates who had just been returned to Hawaii from prisons in Oklahoma, Minnesota and Arizona.
Corrections Deputy Marian Tsuji said it was a matter of human error in processing the 56 men.
Tube times Presidential debate tomorrow
Local TV coverage of tomorrow's presidential debate:
Live at 3 p.m.:
KGMB
KITV
CNN
FOX News ChannelDelayed:
KHNL, 8 p.m.
KHON, 11:30 p.m.
KHET, 8:30 p.m.
City fire department wins accreditation
The Honolulu Fire Department has become one of 38 organizations worldwide to receive accreditation from the Commission on Fire Accreditation International.The announcement was made yesterday during a news conference at the mayor's office to kick off Fire Prevention Week this week.
An assessment team consisting of five fire chiefs from around the country visited Honolulu on behalf of the commission in July and evaluated the department on 250 performance indicators.
10,000 people waiting for public housing, rally told
About 10,000 people are on waiting lists for government housing assistance in Hawaii, a Honolulu gathering of public-housing tenants was told.Many of the 60 participants in a candlelight vigil at the state Capitol last week were from the Federated States of Micronesia and were recently notified by the state that rent subsidies and food stamps they have received would be cut this month.
"We feel that the Compact of Free Association meant we were supposed to be treated like citizens," said Thomas Lokot, youth director of the Marshallese New Life United Pentecostal Church of Pearl City. "Our youth are entering the U.S. military."
The Courts
Suspect in fatal shooting will not take stand
A 23-year-old man accused of firing a shot at a car he was chasing in Ewa Beach -- fatally wounding another man -- has decided not to testify in his defense.The defense rested yesterday without calling any witnesses after Edwin Kim, 23, told Circuit Judge Sandra Simms he would not take the stand. The jury is expected to receive the case tomorrow after closing arguments.
Kim is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 21-year-old Gercel Ong on Nov. 20.
If convicted as charged, Kim faces life with the possibility of parole.
The defense contends that Kim "wasn't thinking" when he pulled out a gun and fired at a fleeing car, but he did not intentionally or knowingly shoot Ong. Kim apparently believed the car's occupants had thrown rock-like balls of dirt at them at a friend's house earlier.
The state contends that the chase began because Kim, the alleged leader and founder of KGB, or Kids Gone Bad, and his friends believed the car's occupants were members of a rival gang.
Ong was chased down, boxed in and shot in the back while he and his friends were retreating, the state said.
Faculty wins injunction to halt UH payroll lag
The University of Hawaii Professional Assembly has won another preliminary injunction forbidding the state to carry out a payroll lag.Faculty members earlier had been notified that their Nov. 15 paychecks would be delayed until Nov. 20. But as a result of Circuit Judge Victoria Marks' decision yesterday, faculty members will receive their paychecks on Nov. 15, Nov. 30, Dec. 15 and Dec. 30, UHPA said.
The state started the payroll lag in 1998 to save $51 million by rolling paychecks over into the next fiscal year.
But the faculty union won its first preliminary injunction in federal court against the payroll lag -- which was dissolved in July.
Tomorrow
Some events of interest
7 p.m., Kalihi Valley District Park: Kalihi Valley No. 16 neighborhood board meeting, 1911 Kam IV Road.
Police, Fire
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
Three hurt, one critically, in pair of Ewa accidents
Two related traffic accidents in Ewa this morning left three men injured, one critically, and a city ambulance seriously damaged, city officials said.Information was sketchy as police continued their investigation. The accidents occurred at about 8 a.m. on the Ewa offramp on the H-1 freeway.
An unidentified man in his 50s was critically injured and taken to the Queen's Medical Center. An ambulance spokesman said the victim was walking when he was struck. The vehicle fled the scene, police said.
An ambulance was dispatched to give aid but became disabled and was parked on the side of the offramp, the ambulance spokesman said. Shortly after, a vehicle spun out of control and rammed the parked ambulance, resulting in injuries to two men.
Two more ambulances were sent to care for the injured men and transport them to hospitals. No ambulance workers were injured.
Police in Waikiki nab alleged purse-snatcher
A 36-year-old man was arrested this morning in Waikiki for allegedly robbing a Japanese visitor of her purse.A 28-year-old woman and her female friends were walking along Seaside Avenue when the suspect grabbed her shoulder bag near Aloha Drive at 12:32 a.m., causing her to fall, police said.
He ran away and was chased by a bystander. Police said he was caught by patrol officers hiding underneath a car at Kaiulani Avenue and Ala Wai Boulevard.
Crab fisherman safe after falling from boat
A North Shore man fell from his fishing vessel while tending crab pots off Haleiwa yesterday and swam safely to shore.His 25-foot vessel came ashore near Sunset Beach and was spotted by lifeguards who called the Coast Guard.
The fisherman, 47, telephoned the Coast Guard from a pay phone to let them know he was safe after a Coast Guard helicopter began looking for him.
Hilo cops seek man, 22, for choking ex-girlfriend
HILO -- Police are searching for a 22-year-old man, wanted for choking his ex-girlfriend and threatening other people over the weekend, they said.The man allegedly chased the former girlfriend to the Hilo police station, where she found safety early Saturday, police said.
On Sunday morning he found the ex-girlfriend at a Hilo gas station, jumped into her car through a window, started choking her and threatened other passengers, police said.
Man assaults CPS worker, abducts daughter, 14
HILO -- Police are looking for a man who allegedly assaulted a Child Protective Services worker yesterday and abducted his 14-year-old daughter.The 46-year-old man, of Royal Hawaiian Estates, and his daughter were meeting with CPS workers investigating allegations of family abuse, police said.
The man became angry when told his daughter would remain in protective custody with the agency, then assaulted a worker and left with the daughter in a blue Volvo with the license GVG-432, they said.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 935-3311 or CrimeStoppers at 961-8300.
