Ex-air traffic controller has court date postponed
Former Maui air traffic controller Rick Lee Davis, who confessed to robbing as many as nine banks in the San Francisco area, had his latest court appearance postponed until Monday.Attorneys in the case asked for the extension yesterday at Davis' appearance in U.S. District Court in Oakland, court clerk Kelly Collins said.
Davis, 43, has said he needed money so that his family would not know he was struggling financially.
He was arrested Aug. 3 after allegedly robbing a Bank of America branch in Concord, Calif., of $3,199.
Police said Davis confessed to the Concord robbery and at least eight others.
Davis worked as an air traffic controller in Kahului from 1988 until 1999, when he began working at the San Francisco International Airport.
Unions claim agreement with Liliha hospital
The Hawaii Teamsters and Allied Workers Local 996 declared a tentative agreement early yesterday with St. Francis Medical Center at Liliha.The union represents 700 St. Francis employees who work at the hospital, dialysis and hospice facilities across the state.
Local 996 President Mel Kahele said the next step would be to schedule meetings with members to discuss details of the agreement and to take a ratification vote.
St. Francis Vice President Maggie Jarrett said the hospital could not comment on the tentative agreement until it is ratified.
The Teamsters are continuing talks with Kapiolani Medical Center.
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffNEIGHBOR ISLANDS Honolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
Maui police open homicide investigation
WAILUKU >> Maui police were investigating the death of a woman whose body was found in a sugarcane field in lower Kula yesterday.Police Chief Thomas Phillips said today that investigators were examining the field where the woman's body was discovered and also a home.
Based on preliminary investigation, detectives suspect a homicide, Phillips said.
A person called police yesterday to say a body was found in the vicinity of Omaopio.
Kauai police arrest, charge stabbing suspect
LIHUE >> Kauai police arrested a 21-year-old man yesterday for allegedly stabbing his 14-year-old girlfriend during an argument at a home in Wailua Homesteads Sunday night.Jonathan Kalani Ibana has been charged with attempted murder. Lt. Alvin Seto said Ibana was arrested in the lobby of the Holiday Inn Sun Spree Resort on Kauai's east shore after police received an anonymous tip. His girlfriend is recovering, Seto said.
Leeward Oahu
Argument over money leads to chase, shooting
Police arrested one suspect and are looking for another man in connection with a shooting in Makaha last night.Police said the suspects got into an argument with two men and a woman at an address in Waianae over an unpaid debt.
The victims, in their 30s, fled in a vehicle with two other men, also in their 30s, in pursuit. Police said the second vehicle rammed the first vehicle near the intersection of Jade Street and Farrington Highway at 11:04 p.m..
The victims told police they heard three to five gunshots as they drove away. Neither the victims nor their car was hit. The victims told police where to locate the suspects.
Police arrested one man at a Middle Street address in Kalihi at 11:59 p.m.
HONOLULU
Youths flee, ram police car after attempted theft
Honolulu police are looking for two juveniles who fled police yesterday morning, one of whom allegedly rammed a police car to escape.A 19-year-old man told police the two suspects approached him and demanded money at about 2:30 a.m. A police vehicle happened to arrive in the area and both suspects ran to a car. Police said the officer got out of his vehicle at the Tesoro gas station at Kapahulu Avenue and the suspect reversed quickly and rammed the police car, nearly hitting the officer.
Another vehicle leaving the scene hit a third car and was later stopped by police.
Police caught the driver of that car, but the passengers fled on foot. Police said that vehicle had been reported stolen.
WAIKIKI
Male suspect sought in First Hawaiian robbery
The FBI and Honolulu police are looking for a male suspect who robbed the Waikiki branch of First Hawaiian Bank yesterday.The FBI said the robber entered the bank at 2181 Kalakaua Avenue and demanded cash. The robber said he had a weapon, although none was seen. The suspect placed an undisclosed amount of money into a Liberty House shopping bag and left the bank, headed toward the Honolulu Zoo on Kalakaua Avenue, police said.
The robber was described as in his late 20s to early 30s, 6 feet, 200 pounds, average build, curly brown hair, and clean shaven. He was wearing a brown baseball cap, a long-sleeved navy blue T-shirt, dark khaki shorts and sunglasses.
