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CRASH DOWNS POLE,
CLOSES BERETANIA LANES
CRAIG T. KOJIMA / CKOJIMA@STARBULLETIN.COM
A utility pole landed on a car after a pickup truck lost control and struck the pole at 10:11 a.m. yesterday at 848 S. Beretania St., police said. No one was injured, but the downed pole forced police to shut three lanes of traffic on South Beretania for a few hours and to reroute traffic to Ward Avenue. About 2,000 Hawaiian Electric Co. customers, mostly businesses, lost power for just over an hour.
Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffHONOLULU
Boyfriend charged in kitchen-knife attacks
Honolulu police charged a 30-year-old Alewa Heights man with attempted murder yesterday after he allegedly stabbed his girlfriend and other family members Sunday night.William K. Dewitt allegedly went to his 32-year-old girlfriend's Hoomalolo Street house in Pearl City and repeatedly stabbed her in the chest with a kitchen knife, according to police. Dewitt also allegedly stabbed the victim's mother and two adult brothers who came to help after they heard the victim scream.
Police said the victim is expected to survive and that her family members have already been treated and released. The suspect was later arrested at his Makanani Drive home at 1:30 a.m. Monday. He is being held in lieu of $75,000 bail.
Man survives 1st-floor fall into elevator shaft
A man fell down an elevator shaft yesterday at Kuhio Park Terrace, a 16-story residential building in Kalihi, but was rescued before firefighters arrived.Firefighters received a call at 12:07 p.m., but when they arrived, the man was gone, said fire Capt. Kenison Tejada.
Emergency Medical Services reported the man was taken in serious condition to the Queen's Medical Center.
The man, a supervisor who worked at the state-owned Kuhio Park Terrace, opened the door to the freight elevator on the first floor, took a step in without looking and fell down the shaft, said Derick Dahilig, spokesman for the state Department of Human Services, which oversees the state Housing and Community Development Corp.
The man apparently climbed out himself and was taken to the hospital, Dahilig said.
Dahilig did not know how far the drop was, and said the freight elevator is the only one at the complex that can be opened without the elevator car being in place.
Ex-girlfriend charged in alleged knife threat
Police charged a 22-year-old Kaimuki woman with terroristic threatening after she allegedly hid in her ex-girlfriend's car and threatened her with a knife Monday morning.Annitta Armstrong was charged with first-degree terroristic threatening, and bail was set at $15,000.
The victim, a 42-year-old Kaimuki woman, was driving to work at about 6:35 a.m. yesterday, when the suspect popped up from the rear seat and threatened her with a kitchen knife, police said.
Police said the victim flagged down a police officer in Kaimuki when the suspect fled the vehicle. The suspect was later arrested without incident.
WAIKIKI
Man held in alleged threat with hatchet
Police arrested a 37-year-old Waikiki man early Monday after he allegedly used a hatchet to threaten a homeless man.Police said the suspect pulled a hatchet at about 2 a.m. yesterday on a 43-year-old man who lives in Paki Community Park.
Police later detained the suspect and arrested him for investigation of first-degree terroristic threatening. He was later released pending further investigation.
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Police seek witnesses to crash in North Kona
Big Island police are asking for any witnesses to a fatal traffic crash in North Kona on Saturday to contact investigators.Police said 40-year-old Robert Marion Haile of Honokaa was apparently traveling toward Waimea along Hawaii Belt Road near the 21-mile marker when he apparently ran off the road, overturned and plunged down an 80-foot embankment, pinning him inside. Haile was taken to the Kona Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:15 a.m. Sunday.
Police said officers are continuing to investigate.
Anyone with information is asked to call officer Eric Cerezo at 326-4646, Sgt. Leroy Victorino at 961-2332 or the police non-emergency number at 935-3311.
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