Police Beat
Advertiser Staff
Fugitive, 38, may be armed
Police yesterday were searching for a 38-year-old man who is wanted on a family court warrant and is considered armed and dangerous.
Police said William Henry Wolters Jr. frequents the Leeward Coast and was last seen driving a black Oldsmobile Cutlass. Wolters has been known to carry a weapon, police said.
Wolters — described as being 5 feet 10, 175 pounds and of medium build — has brown hair, hazel-colored eyes and a mustache. He has "Chandra" tattooed on his left upper arm, a black panther on the left part of his chest and a tiger on his back.
Anyone with information is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300 or *CRIME on a cellular phone.
Waikiki stabbing suspect arrested
Police yesterday arrested a 55-year-old man after he allegedly stabbed another man with scissors during an argument in Waikiki.
Police said the stabbing occurred at 2:44 p.m. when the two began arguing on the makai side of 2453 Kalakaua Ave. The assailant stabbed the victim several times in the upper body with the scissors.
The injured man, who is in his 30s, was taken to The Queen's Medical Center where he was in fair condition, a spokeswoman said. The 55-year-old man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of second-degree attempted murder, police said. Neither man has a local address, police said.
Elks Club members scare off burglars
Members of the Elks Club yesterday morning surprised two burglars who managed only to grab some sound equipment from a manager's office before they fled.
Police arrested one of the suspects near the Honolulu lodge after he broke into a house on the 3000 block of Kalakaua Avenue to hide.
Despite a ground and air search of the area, the second burglar remains at large, Waikiki police said.
The break-in occurred at about 6:10 a.m. A club spokesman said the burglars removed louvers from a kitchen window to enter the building, at 2933 Kalakaua Ave., and fled when they were confronted by club members.
No arrests yet in drive-by shooting
Police yesterday morning said they are following up on leads called in after a drive-by shooting late Wednesday but so far have not closed in on a suspect.
Homicide Lt. Bill Kato said some of the information being checked comes from chronic drug offenders who knew Earl Hirakawa, 40, who died early Thursday after he was shot near the Vineyard Boulevard-'A'ala Street intersection.
Hirakawa, who lived in Pearl City, had a record of 81 arrests, mostly for drug offenses and property crimes, Kato said.
The shooter's car, a light-colored compact model, had drawn abreast of Hirakawa's 1989 Honda Prelude when witnesses heard a shot. Hirakawa then crashed into a tree and was found with a gunshot wound in his head.
Fire damages 'Aiea home
Fire caused $50,000 damage to an 'Aiea home yesterday morning, including what firefighters had to do to the roof to gain access.
Fire Capt. Richard Soo said three companies responded to the 7:38 a.m. fire at 98-864 Ka'amilo St., a few blocks from the 'Aiea fire station. Because of a false ceiling in the house, Soo said, firefighters had to break through the roof to douse the roofing beams.
Damage to the building contents was estimated at $10,000. Investigators had not determined a cause yesterday morning, but Soo said the house had been cut off from electrical power.
Pilot safe after landing-gear glitch
A single-engine plane landed safely yesterday morning at the Kalaeloa airport after a scare with failed landing gear.
The Federal Aviation Administration was notified at 8:42 a.m. when a pilot signaled he was in distress during touch-and-go landing practice at the general aviation airport, said FAA spokeswoman Tweet Coleman. The pilot, the lone occupant of the Yak aircraft whose landing gear had collapsed, managed to land safely, Coleman said.
Father, son nabbed in armed squabble
A father and son were arrested Thursday night in Nanakuli after exchanging blows and threats with a baseball bat and a fishing spear.
The father, 46, and the son, 22, face charges of second-degree assault and terroristic threatening in the incident, which happened at 7:30 p.m. on Wa'apuhi Street.
An argument over missing money escalated until the son struck the father with a baseball bat and the father chased him with a spear gun.
