HONOLULU

Husband arrested in alleged choking

Police arrested a 31-year-old man for allegedly choking his wife last week.

Police said that about 11:15 p.m. last Wednesday, the suspect and his 38-year-old wife were arguing in Kalihi. The suspect then allegedly choked his wife, and hit her several times.

Police said the woman reported the incident and moved to the mainland. Yesterday, the woman returned and the husband turned himself in at the Pearl City police station. He was arrested on suspicion of felony abuse.

Man missing from collapse is safe

A 41-year-old man reported missing after part of an illegal makeshift structure in Kalihi collapsed on Oct. 26 is fine.

Reno Dawson notified police Saturday that he was all right. Police and fire rescue crews searched the property at 1732 Gulick Ave. after friends and relatives expressed concern that he might have been in the structure when it collapsed. He was not.

No one was reported injured when part of the structure, made of wood, pipes and tarps, collapsed during heavy rainfall, displacing more than 50 people.

Firefighters rescue injured teen hiker

Firefighters rescued a boy in his late teens who was critically injured yesterday after falling while climbing rocks alongside a waterfall in Kalihi Valley.

The teen fell about 40 feet, landed on boulders, tumbled into the water below and suffered multi-symptom trauma, Emergency Services Department spokesman Bryan Cheplic said.

The hiker was near a pool known as “;Ice Pond”; when he fell about 2:27 p.m. while climbing up, fire Capt. Terry Seelig said.

The teenager suffered cuts, contusions and abrasions on his upper and lower body.

A rescue team placed the teen on a board, then placed him in a basket and transported him by helicopter, lowering the basket to a waiting ambulance on Likelike Highway. Police shut down the highway for a few minutes while he was transferred at about 3:30 p.m.

Paramedics treated and stabilized him before he was taken in critical condition to an area trauma center.

LEEWARD OAHU

Tiff over parking leads to arrest

A 62-year-old Waianae man, upset with a co-worker for taking his parking spot in Pearl City yesterday morning, was charged with reckless driving.

Godfrey A.A. Young Sr. reportedly got upset with his co-worker when he parked in his spot on an unimproved shoulder at about 5:20 a.m. Young allegedly drove toward the co-worker, braked and skidded to a stop on loose gravel, police said.

The 55-year-old co-worker jumped out of the way when he saw the vehicle coming, police said.

Police said no one made threats, nor did the two have a history of problems.

Police calculated the speed and found Young was not speeding and he did not warrant being charged with terroristic threatening.

Young was arrested at 6:35 a.m. yesterday in front of 952 3rd St.

Police charged Young later yesterday morning and he was released on $500 bail.