Newswatch

By Star-Bulletin Staff

Wednesday, January 13, 1999

Marzan gets life
for shooting wife
to death in 1997

Circuit Judge Dexter Del Rosario today sentenced Saldy Marzan to life with the possibility of parole for shooting his wife Arlene to death in January 1997.

He also was sentenced to 10 years each for three firearms charges; and 10 years, with a mandatory of five years, for an unrelated drug charge. All the sentences will be served concurrently.

A jury found Marzan guilty of second-degree murder in his retrial in November. A first trial ended in mistrial as jurors couldn't reach a unanimous verdict.Marzan was separated from his wife, 24, at the time of the shooting and was ordered to stay away from her.

Chester Kanai, Marzan's lawyer had argued his client never intended to kill his wife and that the shooting was accidental.

But Deputy Prosecutor Chris Van Marter had said that Marzan had his finger on the trigger of the gun and aimed it at his wife, showing intent. Marzan had called his wife on Jan. 27, asking for help after he smoked crystal methamphetamine. He became angry when she told him she wasn't going to his apartment.

Protect shoreline ohana to hold first meeting

Protect Our Shoreline Ohana, a group for shoreline property owners, will have its first organizational meeting at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Puohala Community and Senior Citizen Center in Kaneohe.

Officers will be elected, issues discussed and proposed legislation summarized. State Sens. Bob Nakata and Marshall Ige, and Reps. Colleen Meyer, Ken Ito and Iris Catalani said they would attend.

For information, call 247-4955.

Scammer soliciting donations for school

The Department of Education has not authorized any solicitation of funds for Makaha Elementary School, which was burglarized and vandalized in late December.

The DOE is alerting the public that a man carrying a clipboard has been canvassing a Windward Oahu neighborhood collecting unauthorized donations.

CORRECTION A story on the Lower Hamakua Ditch yesterday gave an incorrect year for the closing of Hamakua Sugar Co. The correct date is 1994.

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Police, Fire



By Star-Bulletin staff

POLICE

Inmate arrested in home robbery

Police yesterday arrested a Halawa inmate in connection with December's armed robbery on the North Shore.

A man armed with a handgun and another armed with a steel pipe robbed four men inside a Huelo Street home in Sunset Beach on Dec. 16, police said.

Police hunt burglary suspect

KAILUA-KONA -- Police are asking for the public's help in locating Rodney Robert Rodrigues Jr., 27, a suspect in a number of burglaries in West Hawaii. He may be on Oahu, they said.

Rodrigues is 5 feet 5 inches tall, 130 pounds, slim, with fair complexion, brown eyes, and dark, shoulder-length hair. He has a tattoo on his left shoulder.

Call Crimestoppers at 329-8181 in Kona or 955-8300 in Honolulu.

In other news...

A man was arrested yesterday after attempting to sell a camera and clothes to the person from whom he allegedly stole the items, police said. The suspect reportedly showed the items to a resident on Kahakai Drive next to the Hawaii Convention Center at about 10:45 a.m., police said. The resident immediately identified the camera as the one taken from his shed.

A 68-year-old woman was killed yesterday after being hit by a pickup truck in Aiea at 7:30 a.m., police said. The medical examiner's office has identified the woman as Alice Yokoyama.

HILO -- Police are investigating reckless endangering and fireworks cases in regards to explosions of two homemade devices at Waiakea High School last week.

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