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Police arrest man in Big Isle slaying
Big Island police yesterday identified the woman who was found dead in Pepe'ekeo, South Hilo on Tuesday and arrested her former husband on suspicion of murder.
Police identified the woman as Gloria Gorospe, 27, of Old Onomea Road in Pepe'ekeo.
South Hilo Patrol officers on Tuesday responded to a 9 p.m. call and found the woman's former husband at a Hilo home. After talking to the man, the officers were led to a second residence on the Old Onomea Road. There, they found the Gorospe's body on the floor.
Police then arrested the 38-year-old man and are holding him in the Hilo police cellblock pending investigation.
An autopsy is scheduled today.
Police have name in hit-and-run
Traffic investigators last night had identified but not yet arrested a 21-year-old Palolo man suspected of being the driver who fled the scene of an accident early yesterday that injured two people.
The accident occurred about 1:40 a.m. at the intersection of Kaimuki and 10th avenues. Police said the suspect's 1982 red Ford pickup, headed north on 10th Avenue, crossed the intersection without stopping at the stop sign.
The truck broadsided an eastbound 1991 Toyota Corolla four-door sedan, after which the truck's driver and three male passengers ran away.
Two of the passengers later named the driver for police.
A passenger in the Toyota was in fair condition last night at The Queen's Medical Center.
Police suspect speed and alcohol are factors in the case.
Stolen safe falls from fleeing truck
Police yesterday were looking for two burglars who fled in such haste that their loot went the other direction.
Detectives said the burglars broke into the Village Market, 1349 Wilder Ave., about 1:45 a.m. Police said the thieves took the store's safe and placed it in the back of a pickup, accelerating down Kewalo Street fast enough for it to bounce out of the truck bed. Police recovered it from the middle of the road.
Man, 37, reports downtown robbery
A 37-year-old man told police Tuesday night that he was robbed by an armed man in his 20s near the intersection of River and North King streets.
The robber confronted the victim, who is an acquaintance, and pulled a semiautomatic handgun.
The robber then took cash from the victim's pockets.
