Kentucky bill targets guards

FRANKFORT, Ky. » Prison guards could face charges of felony rape for having consensual sex with inmates, under legislation that received final approval yesterday, some three months after Kentucky ordered 400 women removed from a lockup where allegations of sexual misconduct had become widespread.

Gov. Steve Beshear said he intends to quickly sign the measure into law.

Earlier this year, Beshear ordered all the female inmates removed from the corporate-run Otter Creek Correctional Complex in eastern Kentucky after allegations of sexual misconduct were made against the predominantly male corps of corrections officers.

Corrections officials in Hawaii removed 165 inmates from Otter Creek last year, citing safety concerns.

Corrections Corp. of America spokesman Steve Owen said that his company had taken steps to prevent sexual assaults in the prison.

State Hospital escapee returns after 1 day

A 28-year-old male escapee from the Hawaii State Hospital called Honolulu police and turned him self in to officers last night.

Alexander Aehegma, who previously lived in Keauhou on the Big Island, was attending a group meeting in Kaneohe at 8:20 p.m. Sunday and failed to return after going to the restroom, police said.

Aehegma is described as Caucasian, 5 feet 8 inches tall, 150 pounds, with red hair and brown eyes.

The department said he was wearing long pants, a tan collared shirt and athletic shoes.

Visitor collapses, dies after climbing mountain

LIHUE » Kauai Fire Department officials say a 65-year-old visitor from North Carolina died after collapsing atop a small mountain he climbed over the weekend.

The man hiked Mount Nonou with his son and daughter-in-law on Sunday.

He sat down at a picnic table after reaching the top of the 1,200-foot peak. He collapsed when he got up to take a picture.

Authorities did not release the man's name or hometown.

The department said yesterday the man's son administered cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The daughter-in-law ran down the trail to call for help.

Firefighters responded by helicopter and by climbing the mountain. The man was taken to Wilcox Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

An autopsy is being conducted to determine the cause of death.

Woman killed in fall from hotel room named

The woman who died Saturday in a fatal fall from a second-floor hotel room in Kailua-Kona was identified as Karen Marie Celaya, 52, of San Jose, Calif., Big Island police said yesterday.

An autopsy yesterday showed Celaya died from multiple traumatic injury due to a fall from a height. Police released a 58-year-old San Jose man who was arrested on suspicion of murder pending further investigation.

Police said that at about 10:20 p.m. Saturday, guests at a hotel on Alii Drive in Kailua-Kona heard a loud argument from a second-floor room. The woman fell from the lanai onto the rocks below soon afterward, according to police.

Anyone with information on the case can call the Kona police station at 326-4646 or the police department's nonemergency line at 935-3311. Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous may call CrimeStoppers at 329-8181 in Kona or 961-8300 in Hilo.

Driver who hit 2 cars and died later is ID'd

The 47-year-old Pearl City man who died yesterday after the car he was driving hit two parked cars has been identified as Thomas Y. Shimooka Jr.

Shimooka was driving a green 1994 Mercury sedan south on Komo Mai Drive in Pearl City, about one-tenth of a mile north of Apoepoe Street, when he hit a Nissan sedan and a Chevrolet truck just after 4:20 p.m.

Police said the victim did not appear to suffer any injuries from the crash, but was taken in critical condition to Pali Momi Medical Center because of a possible cardiac arrest. He died at Pali Momi. It is unknown whether the cardiac arrest preceded the crash.

An autopsy is scheduled for today to determine the cause of death. This was Oahu's 18th traffic death in 2010, the same number as this time last year.

Alleged school break-in gets 2 teens arrested

Police arrested two teenage boys who allegedly broke into a Hawaii Kai school Saturday night.

A witness called police to report people on the roof of one of the school's buildings at about 10 p.m., police said. Arriving officers saw the boys run from one area of the school and found one boy had an item marked as school property.

Officers checked the school and confirmed one of the rooms had been burglarized, police said.

The boys were booked on suspicion of second-degree burglary and released later pending investigation.