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Police, Fire, Courts



By Star-Bulletin staff

LEEWARD OAHU
Police capture suspect in rape of 8-year-old girl

Police have arrested a 39-year-old man wanted for allegedly luring an 8-year-old girl from the Waianae Neighborhood Community Center late Thursday and raping her in a nearby vacant lot.

The man was arrested Saturday night at an undisclosed location in Waianae just hours after police released a composite sketch of the suspect.

Police have described the man as having a heavy build but released no further details.

The victim's family found her in the vacant lot at about 9 p.m. Thursday, shortly after they noticed she was missing from the center at 85-670 Farrington Highway.

She was taken to the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children.

NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Suspect caught after chase into lava field

Big Island police have charged a 30-year-old man with 14 counts of car theft.

Kyle Keone Quilausing was charged late Friday and is being held without bail.

He was also wanted on five bench warrants, three for contempt of court and two for revocation of probation.

Quilausing was arrested Thursday morning after a pursuit through a lava field off Waikoloa Road.

Police said they were tipped off to Quilausing's whereabouts, and when the suspect saw police, he allegedly tried to elude them but blew a tire.

Police said he then tried to escape by running into a lava field, where he was apprehended.

HONOLULU
Missing Manoa hiker is found after search

A woman who was reported missing after hiking in Manoa was located by police, according to a fire official.

A few minutes before 7 p.m. yesterday, three men and a woman reported that another woman from their group was missing after they went hiking on a Manoa trail off Waaloa Place near Paradise Park.

Fire Capt. Emmit Kane said 10 fire personnel administered a ground search.

The Fire Department's Air One helicopter also assisted in the search.

Fire officials received a call from police a couple of minutes after 7:30 p.m. that the woman, who is in her late 30s, had been located.

Police did not specify where she was found, Kane said.