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Honolulu police officer M. Angut helped Samantha Samisch with her thumbprint while Anthony Bullard watched on Aug. 23 as part of Chevron Hawaii's Keiki ID Program.
More than 450 students at Webling Elementary School in Aiea have been fingerprinted and given ID cards, thanks to a partnership between Chevron Hawaii and the Honolulu Police Department. Webling Elementary
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The identification project coordinator, Roylene Quintero, said the fingerprinting and ID cards enable parents to provide pertinent information to police in case their children become missing.
The Aug. 23 event also gave children a chance to interact and become comfortable with police officers.
Chevron Hawaii's Keiki ID Program provides a camera, laminator and supplies to each of the eight police districts. The program also provides training on the proper use of the equipment.
Schools interested in the program should contact HPD's Internal Resources Section at 529-3351.
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
LEEWARD OAHU
Woman is arrested in Waipahu shooting
Police arrested a 28-year-old woman last night who was wanted for questioning in the Aug. 21 shooting death of Hayward Julio, near Waipahu High School.Totie Nalani Tauala was brought into the main police station by police shortly after 8 p.m., said Detective Letha DeCaires.
Police said Julio was shot in his head, chest and back as he sat in a parked rental car on Waipio Point Access Road.
HFD suspects arson in Waianae brush fires
The Honolulu Fire Department is asking Waianae residents to be on the alert after six brush fires were intentionally set in Waianae on Wednesday and Thursday.The fire officials say the brush fires include ones near Kamaile Elementary School and Waianae Intermediate School on Thursday and Keaau Beach Park and near Kaena Point on Wednesday. Officials say the fires may have been set by the same person or group of arsonists.
No loss of property has resulted from the fires.
Thursday's blaze at 85-220 Ala Hema St. near Waianae Intermediate School burned nearly 20 to 30 acres of land.
Man seriously injured in Makaha Valley fall
A pig hunter was taken by helicopter to Queen's Medical Center in serious condition yesterday after he fell about 100 feet into a dry riverbed yesterday morning in Makaha Valley.Fire Capt. Richard Soo said the Waianae man, believed to be in his 20s, slipped on moss after intermittent rains.
The victim was one of four Waianae men hunting about five miles past the Honolulu Board of Water Supply's access road on the Honolulu side of the valley, Soo said.
One of the hunters hiked out to the road and contacted the Fire Department on his cell phone at about 11 a.m. Fire dispatched its helicopter, Air 1, and three other units.
Air-1 picked up the man, and he was taken to the 18th fairway of the Makaha West Golf Course where he was transferred to a military Black Hawk helicopter and taken to Queen's at about 1 p.m. in serious condition, suffering from hypothermia and possible fractures to both legs.
He was upgraded to guarded condition last night.
The remaining members of the group hiked out on their own with their seven dogs.
WAIKIKI
HPD seeks 2 suspects in Waikiki hotel theft
The Honolulu Police Department is asking for the public's help in identifying men seen taking a bag from a Waikiki hotel lobby last month.Police said a local Japanese travel executive placed his black cloth bag next to him in a hotel lobby at about 8:30 a.m. on Friday, July 26, while he took care of a group of students.
A short time later, the bag disappeared.
The men are believed to be the same suspects in a similar case in Waikiki last summer in which a Japanese man had his bag stolen as he checked into a hotel, while he and his family were distracted during the theft, police said.
The man who took the bag is described as in his late 30s or early 40s, medium height and build, wearing a light-colored baseball cap, light-colored short-sleeve dress shirt and light-colored dress pants.
The man who caused a distraction is described as in his late 30s, medium height and heavy build, wearing a multicolored aloha shirt and jeans, carrying a light-colored jacket.
Anyone with information is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300 or *CRIME on a cellular phone.
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Woman gets jail term and probation for fraud
A downtown woman who pleaded guilty to defrauding the state of $160,000 in welfare assistance was sentenced to one year in jail and five years' probation yesterday.Deborah Pudiquet, 41, had been charged with first-degree theft for benefits obtained from 1995 to 2001.
During that period, she falsely reported that her five minor children were living with her and that she was unemployed and needed public assistance when the children were living with her parents, said Deputy Attorney General Rick Damerville.
Defense Attorney Jerry Wilson had argued for probation and treatment, saying putting her in jail would not be in the best interests of her children and her parents. Pudiquet's boyfriend, Delancey Ingram, had been sentenced to probation in April for the same charge.
Circuit Judge Michael Town said he might reconsider the jail term if Pudiquet can get into a drug treatment program.
He noted that he had a hard time believing anything Pudiquet said and that she was in denial. It was not until a week ago that her attorney talked her into scheduling an appointment to be evaluated for her drug and alcohol addiction.
When Town asked Pudiquet what her results would be, Pudiquet admitted she would probably test positive for marijuana, alcohol and methamphetamine.
Damerville said a call to the state's welfare fraud hot line was what tipped investigators off to the couple.
"If no one called, it would have been a whole lot worse," he said.
Anyone suspecting public-assistance recipients of welfare fraud is urged to call the hot line at 587-8444.
Extortion, tax fraud bring no-contest plea
A former employee of Castle & Cooke Properties pleaded no contest yesterday to extorting more than $300,000 from a maintenance company over an eight-year period and failing to report the money as income.Catherine Chan Coelho was accused of threatening to terminate Armstrong Building and Maintenance Service's maintenance agreement at Dole Cannery if they did not pay her money, said Deputy Prosecutor Randy Lee. Extortion is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $25,000.
Coelho was also charged with filing a false income tax return in 1996, punishable by up to three years' imprisonment and up to $100,000 in fines.
Her husband, Dexter Coelho, pleaded no contest to tax evasion for tax years 1995 and 1996. He faces up to 10 years in prison and fines of up to $200,000.
Both will be sentenced Nov. 10 before Circuit Judge Marie Milks.
