Drummer to make isle show after arrest
Pop star Pink's debut concert at Blaisdell Center tonight will go on with her drummer, who is wanted in New York on grand larceny charges.William Mylious Johnson III, 27, of the Bronx, was expected to post $50,000 cash bail yesterday in time for the performance, the last in Pink's six-month world tour to promote her second CD "Missundaztood."
Officers arrested Johnson Sunday as the band arrived at Honolulu Airport.
In court yesterday, Johnson waived extradition and agreed to return tomorrow to court so he can be returned to New York.
Circuit Judge Reynaldo Graulty ordered Johnson not to leave Oahu without the court's permission and to check in daily with a state investigator.
Brian Pang, Johnson's attorney, said his client had plans to return to New York following the performance and had purchased a plane ticket before he was arrested.
Pink's road manager has also agreed to be held responsible to ensure Johnson complies with the court's orders.
The district attorney in New York's Bronx division had asked that no bail be set or in the alternative, a $250,000 surety bond be ordered based on Johnson's extensive travel record, deputy attorney general Neil Murakami said.
Doctors sued over flesh-eating bacteria
The parents of Alyshia C.K. Shimizu, the 5-year-old who contracted a flesh-eating bacteria more than two years ago, have filed a medical malpractice suit against the doctors who treated her.Named as defendants in the suit were Drs. Walton K.T. Shim of Children's Surgery Ltd. at Kapiolani Women's and Children's Medical Center and Raul Rudoy.
Alyshia's family seeks damages in an amount to be proven at trial.
According to the suit, Shim treated Alyshia on June 15, 2000, for pain, swelling and other symptoms in her right knee and leg after she fell and cut her leg in the garage of her Wahiawa home.
Rudoy treated Alyshia the day after and diagnosed and treated her right knee and leg.
The suit alleges Shim and Rudoy carelessly and negligently examined, evaluated and treated her injuries. The leg became infected and she contracted a flesh-eating disease that required multiple skin grafts and triggered septic shock, multiple organ failure and other disabilities, the suit said.
Alyshia lost more than 33 percent of the skin tissue before doctors stopped the spread of the disease. She had two surgeries at Kapiolani Medical where doctors removed dead tissue. She also flew to Shriners Hospital in Sacramento, Calif., where she underwent skin grafts to replace skin on her legs and torso.
Shim, a professor of surgery at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, said he feels bad about the lawsuit and what happened to Alyshia, but declined comment until after he's seen the complaint.
Rudoy could not be reached for comment.
Back in July 2000, Anthony Shimizu, Alyshia's father, had praised doctors for all they had done for his daughter. "I cannot say enough about Dr. Shim and the Kapiolani staff. They saved my daughter's life," Shimizu had said.
Alyshia is now 7 and living with her family in Ewa. She is expected to undergo skin grafts until she is 18 because as she grows, the scar tissue will tighten.
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Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHonolulu Police Department Crimestoppers
LEEWARD OAHU
Man arrested in beating and robbing of girlfriend
Honolulu police arrested a 25-year-old man for allegedly beating his girlfriend then taking her money.Police said the victim, 30, was with her boyfriend at his Kahuamoku Street apartment in Waipahu at 11:50 a.m. yesterday when he demanded money from her. The victim refused because she said she knew he would use the money for drugs, according to police.
The suspect then began beating her and, while she was on the ground, took money from her pants pocket, police said.
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Suspect held in alleged assault on 2 young girls
Honolulu police arrested a 70-year-old North King Street man yesterday after he allegedly sexually assaulted two girls, ages 7 and 9.Police said the victims were assaulted by an acquaintance from January to as recently as this month, but would not release other details. Police arrested the suspect for third-degree sexual assault.
Dead man's identity used to collect welfare
Honolulu police arrested a man who was allegedly collecting welfare benefits in Honolulu by using the name and Social Security number of a fugitive who died three years ago.Police arrested the suspect at 8:40 a.m. on an identity-theft offense. Police said the suspect may face additional charges for allegedly double-dipping into the welfare system by collecting benefits under his own name as well.
Police said the suspect was able to collect welfare even though he did not resemble the fugitive. The suspect, 47, is described as a black male with black hair and brown eyes, while the fugitive was a 33-year-old Caucasian male with red hair and hazel eyes.
Federal investigators are also looking into whether the suspect may have been quadruple-dipping into the welfare system by collecting out-of-state and Social Security benefits.
Help sought in finding Arizona Memorial thief
Police and Navy investigators want help identifying the suspect who broke into two parked vehicles at the USS Arizona Memorial parking lot last month.
Police said on Nov. 12, between 9:15 and 10:45 a.m., the suspect, who was possibly operating a dark-colored Ford Mustang, entered the lot and broke into another Ford Mustang and an Oldsmobile Alero. The suspect then went to First Hawaiian Bank at 2 North King St. and at 10:57 a.m. withdrew cash from the automated teller machine using a stolen credit card.
Police said the suspect then tried several more times to withdraw money at the same ATM but was unsuccessful. Later, police said, the suspect unsuccessfully tried to withdraw cash from the Bank of Hawaii branch at 1617 Dillingham Blvd.
Surveillance cameras at both banks captured images of the suspect, described as in his 30s, 6 feet, with a medium build, fair complexion, short military haircut and clean-shaven. He was last seen wearing a dark-colored T-shirt and dark long pants, and driving a newer-model Mustang.
Anyone with information should call Naval Regional Security Criminal Investigator Travis R. Earl at 474-6205, CrimeStoppers 955-8300 or *CRIME on a cellular phone.
Man held for alleged Internet enticement
Police along with state and federal law enforcement agents arrested a 29-year-old Honolulu man yesterday for allegedly using the Internet to lure a 13-year-old girl into a sexual encounter. Officials with the Hawaii Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force said the suspect asked a person he thought was the girl to meet him for sex. Officers arrested him when he arrived for the meeting.This was the third arrest in the past six weeks for electronic enticement of a child.
