Posted at 8:45 a.m., Thursday, June 28, 2001

Man accused of violating order, hurting ex-wife

By Rod Ohira and Curtis Lum
Advertiser Staff Writers

Police today will seek charges against a 38-year-old man in connection with yesterday's early morning attack on his ex-wife at Kuhio Park Terrace.

The man has four prior convictions for abuse of a household member.

Detective Mark Wiese, the lead investigator, was planning to interview the 40-year-old victim this morning before confer ring with prosecutors on charges.

The woman was stabbed in the chest with a small utility-type knife and burned on her cheek and lip with a soldering iron yesterday in her 15th-floor apartment in the state housing project on Linapuni Street, police said.

Her ex-husband, who was arrested in the apartment after a struggle, had violated a court order issued last year to stay away from her.

The woman is in guarded condition at Queen's Medical Center.

Police said she called at 1:30 a.m. yesterday to report that her ex-husband was at her apartment in violation of a temporary restraining order.

By the time officers arrived, the man had fled, they said.

He returned at about 4:30 a.m., and this time the woman was burned and stabbed, police said.

The second time police arrived, the man barricaded himself in a bedroom. Wiese said officers established a rapport with him, and he let an officer into the bedroom at about 5:10 a.m.

The man did not give up without a struggle, however. Wiese said an officer was kicked and several officers were needed to subdue the man.

No officers were seriously injured, and the suspect was treated for minor injuries before being taken into custody, Wiese said.

The woman's two teen age sons were in the apartment at the time.