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Police, Fire, Courts

By Star-Bulletin Staff

Memorial Day
observances
set over 2 days

Memorial Day observances will begin at 10 a.m. today at the Waikiki Natatorium. At 4:30 p.m. the first Pacific American Foundation "Roll Call of Honor" will be held at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl. It will be followed at 6 p.m. with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Day Eve candlelight ceremony. Also at 6 p.m., the Annual Sunset Memorial Service will be held at the Armed Forces Eternal Flame, mauka of the state Capitol.

Tomorrow, the Mayor's 52nd Annual Memorial Day Program begins at 8:30 a.m. at Punchbowl. The National Park Service plans a Memorial Day service at the Arizona Memorial Visitor Center Monday beginning at 7:45 a.m. The U.S. Submarine Veterans of World War II will hold a ceremony at 11 a.m. at the U.S. Naval Submarine Base at Pearl Harbor. The Governor's annual Memorial Day ceremony is at 1 p.m. at the State Veterans Cemetery in Kaneohe.

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Police, Fire, Courts



By Star-Bulletin staff

Honolulu Police Department Crimestoppers

HONOLULU
Man arrested for assault after reporting stolen car

Police arrested a suspect in a baseball-bat assault after he reported his car stolen by one of the men he allegedly tried to hit with the bat.

The incident began about 3:45 a.m. yesterday when two groups of men were drinking beer at Keehi Boat Harbor and got into an argument.

Police said some of the men were apparently jealous that the two victims had newer cars.

The suspects left the scene and returned with more people. At least four of the estimated eight men had baseball bats, police said. The victims fled in one of the suspect's cars as the men approached swinging bats and hitting their cars, police said.

The suspects later reported the car stolen, and a 21-year-old Kalihi man was identified by the victims and arrested on suspicion of criminal property damage and terroristic threatening.

LEEWARD OAHU
Woman, 20, critical after car hits stone structure

A 20-year-old Waianae woman was in critical condition yesterday at the Queen's Medical Center after her car crashed into a moss-rock structure at Waianae Boat Harbor.

Police said the woman had been arguing with her husband and was speeding away toward the harbor road exit when she hit the structure around 8 a.m. yesterday.

NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
3-day sweep of Big Island nets 2,973 pakalolo plants

HILO >> Big Island police confiscated 2,973 marijuana seedlings and plants during a three-day sweep of Hilo, Puna and South Kohala.

Federal agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration and staff from the Hawaii Army National Guard counterdrug program assisted.

The sweep, which ended Wednesday, was part of the Hawaii County Police Department's Counter-Cannabis Field Operation.

WINDWARD OAHU
Borrowed-car dispute leads to arrest for robbery

A man who did not want to return a car he had borrowed from a friend was arrested Friday after he allegedly defended his possession of the car with a baseball bat.

Police said the Waimanalo man, 38, had been loaned the car several weeks ago. When his 43-year-old friend came to reclaim the car around 9 p.m. Friday, the two men argued and the suspect grabbed a bat and allegedly threatened him.

The victim fled to call police. Police arrested the suspect for robbery, drug possession and assault.