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Search resumes for missing cruise ship employee
The Coast Guard resumed its search yesterday for a missing crewman who is believed to have jumped overboard from a cruise ship 90 miles north of Fanning Island, some 1,200 miles south of Hawaii.The Coast Guard dispatched a C-130 plane at 3 a.m. yesetrday to begin the search for the missing man at sunrise.
Despite a pay raise, the 24-year-old Filipino crewman was unhappy about his promotion to “potato man,” who oversees potato peeling in the ship’s galley, according to the Coast Guard.
The cruise ship Crystal Harmony docked at Fanning Island at about 7 a.m. yesterday, and the crewman failed to report for work at 9:30 a.m. The crew searched the small atoll and found no trace of him. The passengers, who had disembarked, were called back early to the ship, and the ship retraced its route yesterday in hopes of finding the man.
The crewman was last seen on board the ship about 1 a.m. Sunday. The Coast Guard was notified at 1 p.m. of the man’s disappearance, and searched 500 square miles yesterday. Crystal Harmony is a Bahamian-registered ship of Crystal Cruises.
Sons of busted dealer are told to stop dealing
State officials said they have closed a second-generation drug house in Kalihi by banning four alleged drug dealers from distributing drugs.According to a news release by the state Department of the Attorney General, drugs were being distributed from 1949 Stanley St. for at least four years. State officials said that even though one male resident from the house is already serving a drug-related prison sentence, his sons took over the drug trade in the neighborhood.
The attorney general's office filed a nuisance-abatement lawsuit. Circuit Judge Eden Hifo issued the order, effectively banning two residents and two relatives from distributing or tolerating the distribution of illegal drugs.
State officials ask anyone suspecting an illegal drug house operating in their neighborhood to call their Drug Nuisance Abatement Unit at 586-1328 on Oahu or 800-966-6384 on the neighbor islands. E-mail can be sent to stopice@hawaii.gov.
Money will help finish aquaculture facilities
HILO >> Gov. Linda Lingle has released $2 million toward completing design and construction of a $5.7 million aquaculture facility in Hilo, her office announced.The Pacific Aquaculture and Coastal Resources Center, administered by the University of Hawaii at Hilo, is being built in two locations.
At a long-abandoned waste-water treatment plant on 12.5 acres of the Hilo shore at Keaukaha, construction is planned for a water-quality laboratory with indoor and outdoor tanks, pearl oyster production, fish hatcheries, classrooms and offices.
Six miles inland at UH-Hilo's 110-acre agricultural farm in Panaewa, freshwater ponds, systems integrating aquaculture and agriculture, and other facilities are being developed.
The completion date is July 2005.
Highways to get more emergency phones
The state Department of Transportation has received $325,000 for the installation of 65 new emergency phones and upgrades for 15 existing phones.The phones enable highway users to request emergency assistance from police, fire and medical services. The phones will be installed along the H-1 freeway from Halawa Interchange to Ainakoa Avenue in Waialae-Kahala; the Moanalua Freeway from Halawa Interchange to Middle Street; and Kamehameha Highway from Weed Circle to Kamananui Road.
All phones are expected to be operational by March 2005.
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[Taking Notice]
>> Thomas W. Sileo, a former special-education professor at the University of Hawaii, has received the William G. Carr Award from the National Education Association. He is also the former executive secretary to the NEA in the United States and abroad.The award was based on Sileo's work at UH on understanding the attitudes and behavior of young adults in diverse racial, ethnic and cultural groups towards HIV/AIDS.
>> Michael Hewitt, a student at Kapiolani Community College, has been awarded a $1,000 scholarship from the Coca-Cola Foundation for academic success and 100 hours of community service.
>> University of Hawaii students throughout the state have received $10,000 in scholarships through the AlohaCare Believes in Me Scholarship, a new QUEST health plan program providing financial assistance to low-income students.
Recipients include Verma Acob, Dawn Baxter, Shirley Bonilla, Steven Connery, Lisa Garcia, Lisa Leonard, Shane Mizusawa, Michelle Sharp, Candace Takatsuka, Kimberly Tucker, Rogelio Cabaya, Rose Marie Justo, Jadelyn Shioshita, Bonnie Duncan, Teresa Hernandez, Claudia Skelton and Lori McKee.
>> Valerie Kunimoto and Francesca DePasquale, St. Francis School 2003 graduates, have been named College Board AP Scholars for their exceptional achievement on college-level Advance Placement Program Exams for high school students. Kunimoto currently attends the University of Oklahoma, and DePasquale attends Georgetown University.
>> Prince Kuhio Hawaiian Civic Club has awarded 18 scholarships valued at $16,500 to these students:
$1,000 awards for continuing recipients: Edward Akana, Ian Chun, Kimokalani Jarett, Shanelle Sanborn and Nalani Nelson, of the University of Hawaii at Manoal Kathleen Mokuau, of the University of Oregon; and Pual'ili' Rossi, of the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
$1,000 awards to new winners: Raymond Carreira, of Lawrence University; Kainao Jarrett, of the University of Hawaii at Manoa; Desiree Koanui, of Pacific Lutheran; Shanley Roxburg, of Willamette; Sara Wong, of Duke; Richard Kamoku, of UH-Hilo; Kekela Lani, of Embry-Riddle; and Kamuela Yong, of Loyola Marymount.
$500 scholarships went to Leila Sanchez Albino, of Hawaii Pacific University; Hokulii Tamayori, of Cal-Poly Tech; and Wainani Hansen, of Chapman.
Police, Fire, Courts
By Star-Bulletin staffEAST OAHU
Police seek suspect in stabbing near Kahala Mall
Police are looking for a man who stabbed a 53-year-old man in Kahala on Sunday night.The stabbing occurred near Kilauea and Waialae avenues at about 8:30 p.m.
The victim had gotten off a city bus near Kahala Mall and was walking home when a man came from behind and struck him repeatedly without provocation, police said. The victim told police the suspect then walked away.
The victim, not realizing he was stabbed, walked home. Once there, a family member discovered his injuries and took him to the hospital, where he was treated for stab wounds to the mouth, cheek, forearm and shoulder and then released.
The suspect is described as having short dark hair and a medium build, about 180 pounds, and was wearing a dark jacket.
The suspect faces an attempted-murder charge.
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Man's burned body has signs of foul play
Big Island police have reclassified the death of a man whose body was found in the ruins of a Puna fire last month as a murder.East Hawaii Criminal Investigation Section detectives reclassified the case yesterday after an investigation and autopsy results determined that the victim had suffered a fracture and stab wounds in his upper body, indicating he had died of foul play.
Police identified the victim as Dion A. Kluz, 42, of Hawaiian Paradise Park. Kluz was also known as Christopher Kluz, Dijon Kluz and Dijon Kluzak.
Kluz's body was found in the smoldering remains of a house on 18th Avenue that had been destroyed by fire Jan. 14.
Responding to an 8:15 a.m. call from neighbors, police and firefighters arrived to find the house engulfed in flames.
After extinguishing the blaze, they found the body of the victim inside. The body was so badly burned, the identity and sex of the victim could not be immediately determined. Kluz was later identified through dental records and his Hawaii driver's license.
Anyone who may have known Kluz or knows anything about the fire or his death is asked to call East Hawaii police Detectives Richard Sherlock at 961-2379 or Robert Wagner at 961-2380, or the police nonemergency number at 935-3311.
Those who wish to remain anonymous may call CrimeStoppers at 961-8300 in Hilo or 329-8181 in Kona.
HONOLULU
Police hold Iwilei man in alleged gun threat
Police arrested a 34-year-old Iwilei man after he allegedly threatened a 30-year-old man with a handgun at a Kalihi Valley home Sunday night.Police said the incident followed an argument between the two men.
Police arrested the suspect for investigation of first-degree terroristic threatening.
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