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Police, Fire, Courts

By Star-Bulletin Staff

Friday, August 11, 2000

Police ask help in golf-club burglary

Police and military investigators are asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect who stole 78 clubs valued at $13,000 from the Navy-Marine Golf Course pro shop last month.

Police believe the burglary may be linked to a series of "smash and grab" golf shop burglaries in the past year.

The latest burglary was reported at 4 a.m. July 27, police said. The silent alarm was activated after a large window was broken. Military security saw a man running toward Nimitz Highway.

Last October, $7,500 worth of clubs were stolen.

Nevada Bob's in Kapolei and the Kapolei Golf pro shop were also burglarized of similar clubs in the past two months.

The burglars always target name-brand clubs such as Callaway, Ping and Titleist, police said.

"They know the good stuff," said Detective Letha DeCaires.

Anyone with information about the burglaries is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300.

Army to set test fires in 3 Makua locations

The Army will conduct a series of test fires Monday in Makua Valley as part of its fire management plan.

Ten to 15 plots of grass, measuring 99 feet by 66 feet, will be burned in three locations to determine how fire spreads, the Army said.

That information will be used by the Army to determine what kind of training can take place in the Makua Military Reservation.

Second surgery leaves Sesilia 'doing very well'

Sesilia Tatofi, 3, was reported making progress after her second operation related to liver-transplant surgery yesterday at Stanford University's Lucille Packard Children's Hospital.

"Mom and child are doing very well," said hospital spokeswoman Bettylu Smith.

Sesilia received one-third of her mother's liver Wednesday in a living-donor procedure. She was taken back into surgery yesterday after some bleeding Wednesday night.

Sesilia was born with biliary artesia, a blocking of ducts that carry bile from the liver to the intestine.

Smith said Sesilia's mother, Leilani, also is doing well.

Two WCC staffers up for governor's awards

Two Windward Community College employees have been nominated for the 2000 Governor's Awards honoring outstanding state employees.

Scott K. Masuno, a computer specialist, was nominated by the University of Hawaii for the Distinguished State Service award. Michael Garcia, dean of instruction, was nominated by UH for the State Manager of the Year award.

Tomorrow

Some events of interest

9 a.m., City Department of Human Resources Conference Room: Nuuanu/Alewa town vision meeting. Call Lorrie Chee at 523-4433 for information.

Corrections Mark Matson had resigned as a clergyman at Tripler Army Medical Center a few months before he sexually assaulted a teen-ager in August 1998. A story Wednesday about a suit filed against Matson by the parents of the teen-ager said incorrectly that he was employed at Tripler at the time of the assault.

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Police, Fire, Courts



By Star-Bulletin staff

Honolulu Police Department Crimestoppers

Man dies from injuries in Waikiki assault

A 36-year-old man died yesterday from injuries sustained from an assault in Waikiki last week.

The man was walking on Ena Road at 6:25 p.m. Aug. 1 and was punched in the face by an unknown man walking in the opposite direction, police said. The victim fell back and hit his head on the sidewalk.

He was transported to Queen's Hospital, where his condition worsened. He died yesterday.

Police have opened a homicide investigation.

Woman arrested for domestic abuse

Police arrested a 33-year-old Pearl City woman yesterday for allegedly abusing and threatening her boyfriend with a knife.

The man, 33, was on the telephone at 10 p.m. in their Palekaiko Street home when his girlfriend of 13 years reportedly kicked him in the groin, causing him to fall to his knees, police said. As he was on the ground, she brandished a large knife. She allegedly "pressed the blade to his neck and repeatedly threatened to kill him," a police report said.

The boyfriend made it into the garage, where she threatened him again with the knife.

He was able to get out and call police, who arrested the woman on two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening and domestic abuse.

Hilo man charged for Sunday stabbing

HILO -- Police have charged Vincent Higa, 24, of Hilo with attempted murder, two assault charges, threatening, and four firearms violations for a fight Sunday in which he stabbed three people.

Higa is being held in lieu of $71,000 bail. The victims are recovering.