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Suspect in rape allegedly taped acts
A 23-year-old Waipahu man, who police accuse of raping a 10-year-old girl, had compiled a video collection of the sexual acts, according to court documents.
Shane A. Fernandez was charged Sunday with 10 counts of first-degree sex assault, 16 counts of third-degree sex assault and three counts of promotion of child abuse. He was being held on $1 million bail.
Police arrested him after the girl, from Waipahu, told her mother of the alleged offenses at her home on Friday night.
According to a police affidavit, the girl's mother found videotapes of Fernandez, her ex-boyfriend, having sexual intercourse with the girl at their residence.
Fernandez lived in the house as a roommate and worked as a maintenance man at the Stadium Market Place on Salt Lake Boulevard, the document said. He was arrested Friday.
According to the Hawai'i Criminal Justice Data Center, Fernandez has no criminal convictions.
Officers threatened by man in Makiki
Police subdued a knife-wielding man in Makiki early Sunday.
Officers responding to a call around 5 a.m. of a man acting strangely on the 1600 block of Pi'ikoi Street arrived to find a man in a hallway brandishing a 20-inch knife. He yelled for the officers to shoot him and threatened to stab them. One officer wrestled the man to the ground and disarmed him.
He was arrested on suspicion of terroristic threatening, kidnapping, assault and domestic abuse.
Gas station robbed in Kane'ohe
Police yesterday were searching for a man who robbed a Kane'ohe gas station Sunday night.
They said a man asked for change at the ARCO gas station, 46-004 Kamehameha Highway, around 9:50 p.m. He then brandished a knife, took an undisclosed amount of money from the cash register and fled, police said.
Remote Schofield fire extinguished
A wildfire that burned about 230 acres in a remote area of Schofield Barracks was extinguished late Sunday by helicopter, an Army spokeswoman said today.
The fire, which began Saturday afternoon at the Wai'anae Mountain end of the Army's KR-6 Range, was in an area firefighters could not reach on foot, said Capt. Stacy Bathrick, spokeswoman for the 25th Infantry Division (Light) and U.S. Army Hawai'i.
Army and HFD helicopters were used to douse the fire.
The range is used for training, but no one was using it when the fire started, Bathrick said.
Husband arrested in domestic fight
A Wahiawa couple's fight led to the arrest of the husband Sunday afternoon, police said.
The man, 23, allegedly slapped, kicked and punched his 20-year-old wife. Police said he held a knife and threatened to kill her. The wife also grabbed a knife and cut his left arm during the assault, police said.
The man was arrested on suspicion of first-degree terroristic threatening and domestic abuse.
