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Posted on: Saturday, March 31, 2001



Police Beat

Advertiser Staff

Soldier's wife accused of threats

The wife of a Schofield Barracks soldier is facing federal first-degree charges of terroristic threatening for allegedly dousing her husband with lighter fluid and trying to set him on fire while telling him she intended to kill him.

According to an affidavit filed in federal court yesterday by James Tamura-Wageman, an FBI agent, Army Sgt. Dennis Sharpe got into an argument with his wife, Sherri, at about 11 a.m. Thursday in the driveway of their home at Schofield Barracks.

According to the court affidavit, Sherri Sharpe poured a cup of lighter fluid on her husband, who was sitting in his vehicle, and as he got out, she slashed the right front tire with a knife and ran into their home.

The affidavit said that moments later, she returned with a bottle of lighter fluid, squirted her husband with it, then began lighting matches and throwing them at him while warning: "I'm going to kill you no matter what happens today."

As Sherri Sharpe was pulling the knife out of a tire, her husband grabbed her wrists, was able to keep the knife away from himself, pinned her to the ground by sitting on top of her and called police on his cell phone, the FBI affidavit said.


Recovered bones probably animal's

Police yesterday recovered a bag of bones in the West Loch area, but the remains are believed to be that of an animal.

Police searched the West Loch area Thursday after an anonymous caller said he found human bones in a bag on a trail, but police found nothing.

A man called police Thursday night and said he would lead officers to where he found the bag, police spokeswoman Michelle Yu said.

Police recovered the bag yesterday but said the bones didn't appear to be those of a human.


Schofield man dies after Waialua crash

A 24-year-old Schofield Barracks soldier died after a one-car accident about 3:45 a.m. yesterday on Kaukonahua Road in Waialua.

Police said the man's car was speeding northwest on Kaukonahua Road in a 1997 white Honda Civic when it failed to negotiate a turn, skidded sideways and hit a utility pole.

The driver was flown to the Queen's Medical Center in critical condition and died later.

Police said the victim was wearing a seat belt, but the air bags in his car did not deploy because the crash impact was to the side of the car.

It was the 16th traffic fatality of the year, compared to 15 at this time last year.


Accident in Iwilei puts two in hospital

Two people were hospitalized after a car crash in Iwilei yesterday.

Police said an Acura traveling on North Nimitz Highway crashed into a utility pole near Sumner Street shortly before 2 a.m.

Firefighters removed the 25-year-old driver from the car and took him and his passenger to the Queen's Medical Center.

The driver was in critical condition and the passenger, a 24-year-old man, was in fair condition, a hospital spokeswoman said.