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Police, Fire, Courts



By Star-Bulletin staff

Honolulu Police Department Crimestoppers

LEEWARD OAHU

Police say drug deal may have led to killing

Homicide detectives are investigating a fatal shooting this morning that may be the result of a soured drug deal.

A 38-year-old Makakilo man was shot in the chest about 3:25 a.m. at Kahe Point Beach Park, police said. A woman reported the shooting to an off-duty police officer, who was guarding nearby Hawaiian Electric's Kahe Power Plant.

The victim, whose name was not released, was being taken to St. Francis Medical Center by ambulance when he died, police said.

Police later found two men who may be witnesses to the shooting and interviewed them.

HONOLULU

Pedestrian, 84, critical after struck by vehicle

An 84-year-old man was taken to Queen's Medical Center in critical condition this morning after he was struck by a vehicle at Pali Highway and Vineyard Boulevard.

The man was walking about 4 a.m. when he was struck, police said, but other details were not available.

Help sought in finding First Hawaiian robber

Police want help identifying the man who robbed the Manoa Marketplace branch of First Hawaiian Bank yesterday.

Police said the suspect entered the bank at 2764 Woodlawn Drive at 12:35 p.m. and passed a demand note to a teller. He was described as 18 to 20 years old, 5 feet 8, 130 pounds, clean shaven, with dark wavy hair and fair complexion.

Anyone with information may call Detective Eric Yiu at 529-3436 or CrimeStoppers at 955-8300, *CRIME on a cellular phone.

WINDWARD OAHU

2 arrested for alleged sale of 'ice' to Marine

State narcotics agents, along with Navy and Marine Corps criminal investigators, have arrested two people who were allegedly delivering crystal methamphetamine, or "ice," to an enlisted Marine on base earlier this month.

State field investigator Ed Howard said a 24-year-old Marine was turned in to military officials after he bragged about smoking ice in his barracks. He said he got the ice from a 19-year-old Kaneohe woman he met online, and she came to visit him Dec. 7.

Investigators set up a sting operation Saturday to buy more ice from the woman and arrested her when she arrived at the front gate to the base. Howard said she arrived with her 13-month-old son and the drugs in a diaper bag.

Navy and Marine investigators then set up another sting with the woman's supplier, identified as a 39-year-old Kailua man.

Investigators said the alleged supplier also showed up at the front gate with the ice and was arrested. Investigators seized an estimated 6 grams of ice from both suspects, along with 171 grams of powdered methamphetamine from a search of the Kailua man's car, Howard said.

Investigators also recovered a .38-caliber semiautomatic pistol and 60 rounds of various ammunition from the man's storage locker in Kaneohe, Howard said.

NEIGHBOR ISLANDS

Big Isle police probe child abandonment

HILO >> Prosecutors are investigating child abandonment charges against a Big Island woman who lost track of her 4-year-old boy for three hours Monday.

The boy was found alone outside the Hilo Wal-Mart store about 7:45 p.m. Monday, police officer Joel Field said.

The boy would not talk to anyone, so store officials announced six times in the store that a lost child was found, Field said.

They called police, who searched inside the store for adults responsible for the boy before turning him over to Child Protective Services for placement with a foster family.

The boy's mother showed up at the police station about 10:45 p.m. with a photo of the child, saying he was lost. She declined to make a statement and asked for a lawyer after he informed her of her rights, Field said.