Bus service will be provided for veterans and residents who plan to attend the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association ceremony tomorrow at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Shuttle buses to ferry
veterans to Pearl Harbor
anniversary riteDirector Gene Castagnetti said vehicles will be restricted for security reasons. Shuttle buses will be departing from the Ward Avenue side of the Neal S. Blaisdell Center starting at 8 a.m. and making a return trip at the end of the ceremony.
Though shuttle bus transportation to the cemetery is free to the public, officials are requesting a $2 donation for a round trip. Parking at Blaisdell Center costs $3.
City buses will also provide shuttle service from the Alapai Bus Terminal to Punchbowl starting at 8 a.m.
Bus passes can be used, otherwise the cost for each way is $1.50.
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffLEEWARD OAHU Honolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
HPD identifies suspect in Waikele robbery case
Honolulu Police and CrimeStoppers are looking for a 34-year-old man wanted for questioning in a robbery case in which two victims were assaulted with a hammer and a third was stabbed.
Police say Robert Flubacher got into an argument with a woman at her Waikele home on Tuesday, hit her in the mouth with a hammer and attacked the woman's two friends. Flubacher fled the scene in one of the victim's cars, a blue 1999 2-door Chevrolet Camaro, license number GYX 564.
Flubacher is considered armed and dangerous. He is described as 6 feet 2 inches tall, 185 pounds, with a medium build, black hair and green eyes. He is also known as David Kaufman, Noel Tucker and Roger Flubacher.
Man stabs, bites ear off woman, police say
A 40-year-old Waianae man was arrested for attempted murder yesterday after he allegedly tried to stab a woman then bit one of her ears off.Police said the man was upset at the 48-year-old woman for stealing his girlfriend and taking her to Kona. When the woman returned to attend a relative's funeral, police said the man tried to stab her with a knife. The woman grabbed the blade of the knife and during a scuffle that followed, the man bit the woman's ear off, police said.
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Two girls arrested in dispute over marijuana
Police initiated a second degree robbery investigation after the parents of a 15-year-old girl reported to Roosevelt High School officials that another student tried to take a bag of marijuana from their daughter.Police said the girl found the marijuana hidden near a pay telephone on campus on Nov. 30. The apparent owner of the drugs, a 17-year-old girl, confronted the younger girl twice and slapped her each time but the younger girl refused to turn over the drugs, police said. The younger girl was then arrested for possession of detrimental drugs. The parents of the younger girl went to the school to pursue robbery charges against the other girl, police said.
