Newswatch
By Star-Bulletin Staff
Tuesday, April 16, 1996
The presiding judge, Cmdr. Peter Straub, ruled on the case this morning after hearing two defense witnesses and closing arguments.
Marine Lance Cpl. John C. Mayfield III, 21, of Dallas and Cpl. Joseph Vlacovsky, 25, of Canton, Ohio, were charged with violating an order to provide a blood and saliva sample - from which a DNA sample could be taken - on two separate occasions last year.
With today's guilty verdict, the maximum they face is confinement for six months, forfeit of two-thirds pay for six months and bad-conduct discharges.
When jets fly over Jack Thompson's home, the noise is so loud he has to stop talking on the telephone.
He is among critics attacking a state environmental draft study proposing overseas flights at Kahului Airport. They say the study fails to adequately describe ways to lessen the impact.
A public meeting about the draft is scheduled 7 p.m. May 8 at the airport's Gate 39, holding room "F." State officials want to complete the review of the study by Sept. 1.
The improvements, being reviewed by the state Legislature, are expected to cost about $40 million, with the state spending $22 million and the federal government, $18 million.
To accommodate overseas flights, the state wants to extend the main runway from 7,000 feet to 9,600 feet.
Kapiolani Hospital officials called police after a man brought his son to the emergency room about 4 a.m. today with stab wounds.
Two men allegedly drove up to the boy on Mango Street around 3:30 a.m. and agreed to meet him in the nearby Bank of Hawaii parking lot.
The suspects, who allegedly agreed to pay the boy for sex, later wanted their money back and one grabbed the boy by the throat, demanding money, police said.
They fled with money and the boy's purse in a maroon Honda, police said.
Officers arrested a 22-year-old man in Ewa two hours later.
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