Search halted for snorkeler

The Coast Guard has suspended the search for a missing snorkeler from Canada.

Bryce Essler, 20, was reported missing Thursday afternoon off Kaanapali, Maui. He was last seen about 100 yards off shore.

The Coast Guard notified his family and officially suspended its search, pending any developments, at about 6 p.m. yesterday.

The search covered about 2,714 square miles and used computer models to factor wind and sea currents to determine the search pattern, the Coast Guard said.

A HH-65 Dolphin rescue helicopter, C-130 aircraft, an 87-foot patrol boat, a 45-foot response boat, Coast Guard Auxiliary aircraft and rescue crews from the Maui Fire Department assisted in the search effort.

Man, 24, arrested in bottle attack

Police arrested a 24-year-old Waimanalo man yesterday after he allegedly broke a 35-year-old man's nose with a beer bottle.

Dolten K. Dela Pena, of Kaaiai Street, was arrested on suspicion of second-degree assault. He was being held on $1,500 for a warrant.

Police said Dela Pena struck the older man with a beer bottle in the parking lot of a bar at Hawaii Kai Shopping Center about 2 a.m.

The man was treated at Straub Clinic and Hospital.

2 held in fight at Punchbowl

Police arrested both a 55-year-old Punchbowl building resident manager and a 31-year-old tenant after the two got into a scuffle Wednesday night.

The two men were arguing about 5:50 p.m. when the tenant grabbed a steak knife from his apartment and chased the manager down the stairs and across the parking lot, police said.

After the resident manager knocked the knife away, the two scuffled, and the tenant injured his head by hitting it on a concrete wall, police said.

The manager left but returned after officers arrived.

Man allegedly steals flatbed

Police arrested a 30-year-old man who allegedly stole a flatbed truck from a construction site in Pearl City.

Officers were conducting an inspection of the construction site about 1 a.m. Thursday when they determined the place had been burglarized.

While waiting for a company representative, the officers heard a truck driving up the roadway and saw the suspect driving a flatbed construction truck with construction equipment in the truck bed, police said.

Officers attempted to question the man, but he ran away, police said.

Officers searched the area and found the man laying face down in a drainage ditch.