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Comedian could get psychiatric evaluation
WAILUKU >> The Maui County Prosecutor's Office wants a psychiatric evaluation of comedian Shawn Hill to determine if he is fit to stand trial on charges he threatened and assaulted animal control officers.A motion to have Hill, also known as Bu La'ia, evaluated is scheduled to be argued at 9 a.m. tomorrow before Maui Circuit Judge Joseph Cardoza.
Hill, 37, has been charged with two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening and first-degree assault. Hill allegedly tried to stop animal enforcement officers from impounding his dogs on Hawaiian homestead land in Kula on Nov. 18.
Store owner pleads guilty in drug case
A Waimalu liquor store owner has pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy to import at least 2,286 pieces of drug paraphernalia and of selling and offering drug paraphernalia.Terry Wong, 54, owner of NonStop Liquor, 98-020 Kamehameha Highway, faces three years imprisonment on each of the two charges. His fiancee, Uni Naomi Noguchi, 47, pleaded guilty to the same charges and faces the same maximum penalties.
Wong and Noguchi admitted to ordering drug paraphernalia on the Internet from a manufacturer in India.
U.S. Attorney Edward H. Kubo Jr. said the investigation began Aug. 2, when customs officials at Honolulu Airport intercepted six large boxes containing glass and metal pipe screens, commonly used to smoke marijuana and methamphetamine.
Law enforcement officers recovered hundreds of additional pipes and other drug paraphernalia in an Aug. 6 search of NonStop Liquor.
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By Star-Bulletin staffHONOLULU
2 teens arrested for jewelry store robbery
Police arrested two teens Monday in the armed robbery of a Salt Lake jewelry store last month.On Feb. 11, four men entered the jewelry store at 12:45 p.m., one of them brandishing a large-frame semiautomatic pistol, police said. The men assaulted the 38-year-old male owner and took an undisclosed amount of jewelry from the display counter, police said.
Witnesses identified the getaway car. Police later found the car and a male fitting the description of one of the suspects. Yesterday, police arrested an 18-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy for first-degree robbery.
Police hold suspect in October shootings
Police arrested a 29-year-old Salt Lake man Monday in the shootings of two men in Kalihi in October.Police said he was identified in a lineup Monday night.
Police now believe that another man, Jonathan Rivera Soriano, who was originally thought to be the gunman and had been charged and held in custody since October, is not involved in this crime.
Soriano was arrested after police received a tip and witnesses identified him in a photo lineup. He has not been exonerated of the charges and is still being held in police custody. Police said he is wanted on other warrants.
At 2:25 a.m. Oct. 18, two men armed with weapons confronted two other men, ages 20 and 26, at Kaiwiula and Alokele streets, police said. One suspect had a knife and the other had a handgun, police said. The two victims were shot and the suspects fled, police said.
Boy, 15, allegedly attacks Kalihi teen
Police arrested a 15-year-old Kalihi boy Monday in a knife attack on a 16-year-old Kalihi boy Feb. 23.The victim received injuries to his head, lip and shoulder. Police said the suspect was found, identified and arrested Monday for second-degree assault. He was later released pending investigation.
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