4 paddlers from Hawaii help make canoe history
Four canoe paddlers from Hawaii made history yesterday when they paddled from Japan to Korea in five hours.Hokule'a navigators Nainoa Thompson and Bruce Blankenfeld, and Jake Mizuno and Brian Keaulana joined members of a Japanese kayak crew to paddle 35 miles to Korea.
The Japanese crew failed in five previous tries.
In 1997, Mizuno's friends created a canoe club in Japan. The Hawaii contingent became part of that 25-member team. The paddlers spent the night in Korea and will return to Japan today.
Mizuno, Thompson and Blankenfeld are members of the Hui Nalu canoe club.
According to Mizuno, the expedition had several purposes: meeting the physical challenge of crossing the ocean; supporting canoe culture in Japan and Korea; and improving relations between Japan and Korea.
Manu O Ke Kai is the name of the canoe that was used to reach Korea. It will be given to Korea as a gift to encourage canoe paddling in that country.
Charter flight delayed while cops look for bomb
A Ryan Airlines charter flight was delayed for more than 12 hours on Maui yesterday while officials from the Federal Aviation Administration and bomb-sniffing dogs from Honolulu searched the plane.The flight originated in Honolulu and was supposed to depart from Maui for its return flight at 11 a.m. A Maui airport security official said the plane was rescheduled to leave at 12:30 this morning.
The search was prompted after a passenger who harassed a flight attendant was escorted off the plane and found to have a criminal record, said Marilyn Kali, state Transportation Department spokeswoman.
A second man traveling with the suspect also was escorted off the plane.
The harassment happened as the plane approached Maui, Kali said.
NASA's Helios takeoff postponed by high winds
BARKING SANDS, Kauai >> A third attempt for the maiden test flight of Helios, NASA's experimental solar-powered airplane, was postponed today because of strong winds at high altitudes. NASA Project Manager John Hicks said the jet stream shifted over Hawaii causing the high winds. but conditions appear more favorable for another attempt tomorrow at the Navy's Pacific Missile Range on the west tip of Kauai.High winds forced a postponement a week ago today. The next day an onboard computer failed and the test was scrubbed. Helios has flown on battery power in previous flights in California but never on solar power.
Corrections and clarifications
>> Funeral services for Maraea Kamae will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at 6979 Orange Ave. in Long Beach, Calif. An obituary yesterday had the wrong address.
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffNEIGHBOR ISLANDS Honolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
Suspect in Kona beating death turns himself in
KAILUA-KONA >> A suspect in the beating death of Kona resident Alden Pauline turned in himself in to police yesterday and was arrested for murder, police said. The 24-year-old suspect was later released pending grand jury action.Pauline, 46, died Monday of injuries suffered Sunday in a beating at Kahaluu Beach Park.
Police investigating death of man after fight
WAIMEA, Hawaii >> Police are investigating the death of Big Island man who died Monday after a fist fight with another man, they said yesterday.Harold Estes, 47, of Waimea, had been involved in a domestic dispute when a 48-year-old man stepped in, police said. The two fought until they were exhausted.
After the fight, police were questioning Estes when he started having trouble breathing. He was taken to Kona Hospital where he slipped into a coma and died the next day.
Honolulu
Gambling room robbery suspects being sought
Police are looking for four men who allegedly forced their way into an illegal gambling operation on Ward Avenue early this morning, ransacked the place and fled with an unknown amount of money.Police said one of the suspects was allowed to enter the ground floor entrance to the second-floor gambling room at 350 Ward Ave. at 12:35 a.m. A person on the second floor locked the door to the game room when he saw the suspect dragging the 41-year-old doorman up the stairs on a security camera monitor. About 20 patrons fled to the back rooms of the establishment when the suspects pried open the door to the game room, police said.
When police arrived the patrons refused to give them statements and left. However one patron mentioned that at least one suspect was armed.
CENTRAL OAHU
Heart disease cited as cause of officer's death
A medical examiner said Kelvin Dow, a sergeant with the Honolulu Police Department, died from heart disease. Dow, 40, was found dead in his Waipio home by co-workers on May 24 when he did not report to work the day before.On May 17, Dow failed a sobriety test when he rammed his car into the rear of a pickup truck at the Waipio Uka intersection. He was placed on desk duty.
LEEWARD OAHU
Man charged in stabbing of his girlfriend's mother
Jeremy Antonio, 21, of Waianae was charged with attempted murder and terroristic threatening yesterday after he stabbed his girlfriend's mother.Antonio turned himself in yesterday morning at the Waianae Police Station.
On Monday, Antonio stabbed his girlfriend's mother and fled in a vehicle. The victim, 40, was taken to Tripler Army Medical Center in critical condition. She was later upgraded to guarded condition. Antonio is being held in lieu of $75,000 bail.
Big Isle pot advocate indicted for possession
HILO >> Big Island marijuana legalization advocate Jonathan Adler has been indicted for possessing and distributing marijuana in 1999.The indictment, filed yesterday, says Adler sold or bartered marijuana on six dates from October to December 1999, each date amounting to a separate count of promotion of the drug.
The indictment says he possessed more than 50 plants -- Adler says the number was 55 -- on Dec. 23, 1999, constituting commercial promotion of the drug, and he had paraphernalia including a scale, a "bong" pipe to smoke marijuana and fluorescent lights to grow it.
Adler claims he is exempt from state laws because he comes under a federal law that guarantees the religious use of certain drugs.
The federal law was written initially to protect American Indian religions. Adler says he is a member of the non-Indian Religion of Jesus church.
In 1996, Kona Religion of Jesus minister Dennis Shields attempted to use the federal law as a defense, but a jury rejected the defense because the religion did not require the use of marijuana at the time. Since Shields' case, the religion now requires its members to use the drug.
Besides the alleged 1999 violations, Adler faces trial next month for alleged 1998 violations.
Fireworks victim's father sues Daiei for negligence
The parent of a then-14-year-old Waimanalo girl who lost her right eye when sparklers she had bundled together with duct tape and lit exploded in her face is suing Daiei for selling them a defective product.Boyd Kalama filed the complaint in Circuit Court on Wednesday on behalf of his daughter, Sherri-Lyn Kalama.
The complaint alleges Daiei was negligent in distributing a product that was not supposed to explode and failed to adequately warn consumers of the possible dangers.
The family had purchased the green Morning Star sparklers at the Daiei store in Kailua. After the accident, which occurred in December 1999, the family had said they had no idea lighting more than one sparkler at a time was dangerous.
Daiei USA officials could not be immediately reached for comment.
