Posted on: Friday, November 1, 2002
Police Beat
Car's driver dies in bus collision
A 40-year-old man was killed yesterday when the car he was driving hit a city bus on North King Street in Liliha.
Police said the man was heading northwest on North King in a tan Toyota Corolla when he ran a red light about 4 p.m. The Toyota struck the bus, which was turning left onto North King from Pua Lane, police said.
The man was taken to The Queen's Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. There were no reports of injuries on the bus, police said.
Witnesses told police that the Toyota was speeding.
Yesterday's fatality was the 56th of the year, compared with 64 during the same period last year.
Public help sought in Waikiki beating
Police are asking for the public's help in gathering information about a beating in Waikiki Saturday that has left an Air Force sergeant in critical condition.
Two men punched the sergeant in the Queen Kapiolani Hotel about
2 a.m. Saturday as he and his fiancˇe were waiting for an elevator. The victim fell to the ground unconscious and the assailants were last seen running west on Cartwright Road.
The victim remains in a coma with serious head injuries, police said.
Police described one assailant as in his mid-20s, about 6 feet tall with a medium build, dark complexion and black frizzy hair in a ponytail. The second man was described as in his mid-20s, about 5 feet 7, medium build, with a dark complexion and black frizzy hair.
The vehicle being sought is a turquoise, older-model passenger minivan with tinted windows.
Anyone with information about this case should call Detective Peter Boyle at 529-3077 or anonymously to CrimeStoppers at 955-8300 or *CRIME on a cellular telephone.
Costumed robber in heist at bank
A man with a painted clown's face and colorful wig yesterday robbed the American Savings Bank branch inside of Market City Foodland at 2939 Harding Ave.
The man passed a demand note in the 11:15 a.m. Halloween robbery, police said. No injuries were reported.
Missing hiker walks to safety
A 36-year-old woman from Memphis, Tenn., walked out safely yesterday after spending the night on a ridge in Wai'anae Valley. Irma VanDam and her husband had gone for a hike Wednesday afternoon and became separated.
She was reported missing by her husband at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday and fire rescue specialists searched until 10 p.m. "She was to the west of where we were searching, up on a ridge, and heard us calling her," Fire Capt. Kenison Tejada said. "But we couldn't hear her."
VanDam yesterday made it out of the valley on her own at 7:10 a.m. and was not injured, Tejada said.
Officials identify fatality in arrest
The city medical examiner's office has identified the man who died Saturday after a confrontation with police in McCully as Garfield Crosbourne, 37.
Police were trying to arrest Crosbourne on suspicion of unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle and used pepper spray on him when he allegedly resisted arrest.
Findings from an autopsy to determine cause of death have been deferred.
CrimeStoppers tip leads to arrest
Police arrested fugitive Preston Baltazar in Wai'anae on Tuesday.
Baltazar, 21, was wanted on four outstanding court warrants and as a witness in the murder trial involving the fatal beating of William Van Winkle at Wai'anae District Park in July 2001. A CrimeStoppers tip led police to Baltazar.
Bank camera image of robber
