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Police catch Waiawa escapee
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Police have captured one of three men who escaped from Waiawa Correctional Facility last week. Two others remain at large.
Kristopher Kealoha is serving a sentence for first-degree terroristic threatening, auto theft and second-degree robbery.
Kristopher Kealoha was arrested Saturday after Honolulu Police Department officers arrived at a burglary in progress at a Waipahu Street apartment complex, according to information released through CrimeStoppers.
Officers took Kealoha to a hospital to be treated for injuries he suffered before his arrest.
Police said Kealoha, 26, left the facility at 94-560 Kamehameha Highway on August 10 at about 6:15 p.m.
Two other inmates also escaped that week. Milton Kapule, 25, and Jack Masaniai, 22, were last seen at the minimum security facility on Tuesday at 7:15 p.m.
All three men had convictions that included violent crimes.
Police said the fugitives should be considered dangerous and should not be approached. Call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300 or *CRIME on a cellular phone.
Search for boater goes on
The search for a boater who has been missing off the Big Island since Wednesday continued throughout the night Saturday and all day yesterday.
Coast Guard Lt. Danny Shaw said the Coast Guard was using two C-130 aircraft to search yesterday for Jason Henderson, 30, who failed to return from a fishing trip off Mahukona Harbor.
The U.S. Navy helped by sending a P3 aircraft out of Marine Corps Base Hawai'i at Kane'ohe.
The Army National Guard assisted in the search on Saturday, conducting ground searches on the northern coast of the Big Island as well as the southern coastline of Maui, he said. An Army Guard helicopter crew searched the water.
Maui motorist critically injured
A 39-year-old Lahaina man was in critical condition at Maui Memorial Medical Center yesterday after a two-car crash on Maui.
Police said the crash happened at 11:18 a.m., near mile post marker 23 on Honoapi'ilani Highway.
The man was driving a 1986 Dodge Ram pickup truck north on the highway when he veered left, crossed the center line and collided with a 1997 Mercedes Benz driven by a 41-year-old Lahaina woman.
The pickup went into a spin and ejected the man through a passenger-side window, throwing him against a makai side guard rail.
The woman in the Mercedes, who was wearing a seat belt, was treated for minor injuries and released from a hospital.
The man was hospitalized with a broken femur, broken jaw and skull fracture.
Police say alcohol may have been a factor in the crash.
The crash closed two of the four lanes of Honoapi'ilani Highway for several hours.
