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Maui driver gets five years in prison

WAILUKU, Maui — The driver of a pickup truck that struck and killed artist David Warren in May 1998 while he was out walking in Pukalani was sentenced to a five-year prison term Wednesday.

Second Circuit Judge Artemio Baxa also ordered Cyrus R. Boteilho Jr., 25, to serve a mandatory minimum term of 20 months because of a prior drug conviction.

Boteilho earlier pleaded no contest to negligent homicide and reckless driving.

His pickup collided with a sedan at an intersection, then veered into a stop sign and struck Warren, 58.

Warren, who had a studio and gallery in Makawao, was a resident of Pukalani.

Boteilho admitted he was high on drugs and driving too fast on the night the accident occurred.

Deputy Prosecutor Davelynn Tengan said she was not asking for a longer minimum term because Boteilho appeared to have taken serious steps toward rehabilitation.

Kahului stabbing linked to $70 debt

KAHULUI, Maui — Police arrested a 53-year-old Wailuku man accused of stabbing another man over a $70 debt.

Robert Norton, charged with second-degree attempted murder, was being held in lieu of $50,000 bail.

The stabbing occurred around 5:40 p.m. Wednesday at a Kono Street residence in Kahului, said Lt. Glenn Cuomo of the Maui Police Department's Criminal Investigation Division. He said the 38-year-old victim apparently had accepted $70 to do some hauling for Norton but never completed the task.

The victim was treated at Maui Memorial Medical Center and released.

Former prisoner kidnapping suspect

Police converged on a Punchbowl apartment Wednesday night and arrested a 30-year-old man who allegedly held a woman hostage for more than three hours.

Officers arrived at the Pele Street apartment at 10 p.m. and arrested the man at 1:15 yesterday morning on suspicion of intimidating a witness and kidnapping.

Police said he had been released recently from the Halawa Correctional Facility, where his cellmate was a suspect in a January kidnapping case involving the same woman.

Police said the man went to her apartment yesterday and gave a fake name. He allegedly showed her a loaded semiautomatic gun and told her he was interested in what was happening in his former cellmate's case. The woman said she finally managed to phone a prosecutor, who then called police.

Wai'anae man charged in attack

Police have charged a 20-year-old Wai'anae man who they said threatened his former roommate and pelted him with rocks Tuesday.

Robert Kaleikini of Kapiki Road was charged with first-degree terroristic threatening.

His bail was set at $25,000.