Punahou sixth-grader Michelle Wie visited Gov. Ben Cayetano yesterday -- not on a school trip, but to be honored as one of the state's best golfers. Proclamation honors
6th-grade golf sensationSunday, Wie won the Jennie K. Wilson Invitational, Hawaii's most prestigious women's amateur golf tournament.
Wie, who is 11, can hit drives of 270 yards, prompting Cayetano to remark, "She hits the ball 50 yards farther than I do."
Her mother and father accompanied Wie to the gubernatorial proclamation, telling reporters that their daughter practices three or four hours a day, but only after her homework is finished.
"We are very proud of Michelle," her father, B.J. Wie, a University of Hawaii professor, said.
"I used to be a good golfer, but since she started beating me, she doesn't like to play with me anymore," her father joked.
Wie said she hopes to be a professional golfer. Cayetano issued a proclamation honoring Wie and also gave her a golf cap and golf balls.
Roommate finds hidden camera in broken clock
Honolulu police are investigating a possible invasion of privacy case after a 21-year-old Honolulu man discovered a hidden camera in his apartment.Police said the man moved into a rented room in an apartment on Kapiolani Boulevard a few months ago. He had been suspicious of a broken clock that was on the television set in the living room. When he took the clock apart, he found a miniature camera and power pack inside. His 36-year-old roommate who rented him the room, denied knowing about the camera.
Later, however, the man later located a videotape of himself in the other man's bedroom.
Police have not made any arrests.
Lawsuit alleges institute unfair in fish production
A Big Island producer of Pacific threadfin fish filed suit yesterday against the Oceanic Institute, alleging the nonprofit aquaculture research center has been competing unfairly.Pacific Harvest Inc. says the institute, with research supported by federal and state grants, has damaged it and other small local producers by selling the fish, also known as moi, below its actual unsubsidized cost, thereby restraining competition.
Pacific Harvest seeks an unspecified amount of damages.
Oceanic's president and chief executive officer, Thomas Farewell, said, "We've heard rumors that a lawsuit was filed, but we have not been served with anything, so we are unaware of what the basis may be."
Farewell said Oceanic provides about 250,000 fingerlings, or baby fish, to Pacific Harvest and other fish farmers per year.
"To date, all the fingerlings provided to farmers have come from the Oceanic Institute," he said.
Corrections and clarifications
>> Lorraine Pescaia's last name was misspelled in a story Sunday about striking Molokai nurses who assisted with accident victims.>> The two victims from a traffic accident Sunday near Sandy Beach were in separate cars. The cutline for a photograph in Monday's paper incorrectly said the victims were in one car.
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
Car crash and arrest follow police pursuit
An 18-year-old Liliha man was arrested for auto theft after the car he allegedly stole crashed near Honolulu Hale.A woman called police about 2 a.m. yesterday to report that a car was being stolen on Lauiki Street in Moiliili. A police officer spotted the car and signaled the driver to stop. As the officer got out of his car, the suspect drove off. The officer chased the car on Kapiolani Boulevard but lost sight of it near the Hawai'i Convention Center.
A man later flagged down the officer at the Ewa end of Kapiolani and reported that he heard a loud crash near Iolani Palace. The car was found at 558 S. King St. The suspect was located on Richards Street.
Teenage girls caught, returned to juvenile hall
Two teenage girls are back at the state Family Court juvenile detention home at 902 Alder St. after they escaped from the facility. A counselor at Home Maluhia reported that the girls escaped from the courtyard at 6:16 p.m. Tuesday. A police officer on routine patrol spotted the girls a short time later five blocks away at Cartwright Field and arrested them.
Makakilo man bound while house is robbed
Honolulu police are looking for three men who robbed and bound a Makakilo man in his Palehua Road home Tuesday afternoon, then waved at a neighbor as they drove off in the man's truck loaded with his property.The suspects entered the home, took cash from the man and bound him with tape, police said. A neighbor interrupted the robbers as they were loading items into the truck. The victim was able to free himself later and call police.
Two of the suspects are believed to be in their 30s, the third in his 20s.
Kailua woman helps in capturing burglars
A Kailua woman interrupted three people as they burglarized a neighbor's Kaiholu Street home, then later helped police arrest two suspects.The woman went outside her home after she heard noises coming from her neighbor's garage about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday. When she got to the home, a male was sitting in a sport utility vehicle parked next to the garage, and two others were walking toward the SUV carrying a television and a stereo. The two males dropped the stereo and television and fled in the vehicle after the woman yelled at them.
Police located the SUV at a Kainalu Drive home and detained four males. The woman identified two of them, a 17-year-old boy and an 18-year-old Kailua man, who were arrested for burglary.
Waipahu boy, 13, robbed and shot with BB rifle
A 13-year-old Waipahu boy suffered a minor injury when another boy robbed him and shot him in the chest with a BB gun.The boy told police he was walking on a dirt road in Waipahu at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday when another boy demanded money from him and shot him twice with a BB gun rifle, then took his backpack.
Police arrest boyfriend on charges of abuse
Honolulu police arrested a 27-year-old man for allegedly physically abusing his girlfriend over a three-day period at a Palolo apartment. The woman suffered a collapsed lung. She told police her boyfriend kicked her on the right side of her body.Police arrested the boyfriend Tuesday afternoon for assault and abuse of a household member. He was already in custody for an unrelated theft case.
Teen motorcyclist upgraded to stable
WAILUKU >> A 15-year-old boy critically injured in a motorcycle accident Tuesday has been upgraded to stable condition at Maui Memorial Medical Center. Ryan M. Hardesty was traveling down Pulehuiki Road in lower Kula when he struck a guardrail at about 3:30 p.m., police said.
