Aloha Air to reinstate some curbside check-ins
Aloha Airlines plans to resume limited curbside check-in service for travelers on Oahu starting today, a spokesman said.The service will be available daily from 8 a.m. to noon at Honolulu Airport, spokesman Stu Glauberman said.
Curbside service on Maui is scheduled to resume from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. tomorrow, with service on Kauai set to return from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Friday, Glauberman said. A service plan for the Big Island has not yet been established.
The limited service, "is for reasons of staffing and to monitor the demand," Glauberman said.
Hawaiian Airlines also is working to resume curbside check-in pending the resolution of some technical issues, spokesman Keoni Wagner said.
All curbside check-in was suspended for security reasons following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The Federal Aviation Administration announced this week that it would allow the service to resume under strict security.
HFD stops accepting relief fund donations
The Honolulu Fire Department is no longer accepting donations to the New York Fire 9-11 Relief Fund at Oahu fire stations.People can still mail their checks to Hawaii Fire Fighters Association, Local 1463, AFL-CIO, 2305 S. Beretania St., Room 202, Honolulu 96826. Donations will be accepted at this address until Oct. 8.
Murder suspect pleads guilty to killing in Kona
KEALAKEKUA, Hawaii >> A Kona man has pleaded guilty to murdering a business acquaintance last year, the Hawaii County Prosecutor's Office announced.Jesus "Jesse" Reyes Jr. changed his plea to guilty last week in the June 17, 2000, shooting death of Kenneth Kaniho Jr. , 41, of Kailua-Kona.
Reyes, 71 at the time of the murder, shot Kaniho four or five times at Kaniho's workplace, Pacific Waste Inc. in the Old Industrial Area in Kailua, the Prosecutor's Office said.
Sentencing is set for Nov. 6.
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staff
Honolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
HONOLULU
Woman allegedly attacks with curtain rod, knife
Honolulu police arrested a 28-year-old female for attacking another woman with a curtain rod and a steak knife on Sept. 29. Police said the suspect forced her way into the 47-year-old victim's Kaipuu Street apartment building and then got into an argument about a third party who had recently been arrested for violating a temporary restraining order.Police said during the argument the suspect grabbed a curtain rod and began to hit the victim over the head with it. Police then say the suspect grabbed a steak knife and attempted to stab the victim.
Police said the victim disarmed the suspect and that the suspect then fled the scene before police arrived. Police located the suspect yesterday morning and arrested her for burglary and attempted murder.
Kalihi husband admits to police he stabbed wife
Honolulu police said a Kalihi man admitted to stabbing his wife this weekend after an argument. According to police affidavits, Florencio Garperio told a police officer "I stabbed my wife, is she dead?"Besides Garperio's statement to police, Garperio's son also told police that he witnessed his father stab his mother. The 14-year-old boy said he heard his mother, Mercy Garperio, screaming from the bedroom of the family's Bannister Street home Saturday and then later saw his father stab his mother as she was lying on a bed.
The boy told police he punched his father in the arm to try and get him off his mother, and that his father walked away and placed the knife on the kitchen counter before walking out the front door. Police later arrested Garperio when he returned to the scene. Garperio has since been charged with murder and is being held in lieu of $75,000 bail.
Man arrested in theft of lawn ornaments
A 41-year-old man was arrested yesterday in connection with the theft of lawn ornaments from East Honolulu homes in August and September. He is the third suspect arrested in the case.Police arrested two other suspects last month and recovered 50 items in the garage of a Diamond Head home. Police said the first two suspects, a man and a woman, were living in a van at the home.
CENTRAL OAHU
Third suspect arrested in pineapple theft
Police arrested a third suspect yesterday in connection with the theft of a carload of pineapples near Waialua in July. Police arrested a 46-year-old homeless man who they said was implicated by the two other people already arrested and charged in the case.Angeline Kepa, 35, and Gordon Rivera, 29, were arrested on July 22 in a car filled with 154 freshly picked pineapples. They are awaiting trial for second-degree theft.
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Police warn Big Isle of bogus phone contest
HILO >> Big Island police are warning about a new scam in which a telephone caller, supposedly from Canada, offers a $50,000 "prize" if the recipient will give $2,000 to $2,500.Legitimate prize offers do not require recipients to send money, police said.
