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USS Lincoln sailor in trouble
The Navy has charged a sailor stationed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln with robbery and assault after a dispute with a taxi driver over a fare, a Navy official said.
The altercation with the driver took place at approximately 2 a.m. Sunday at Pearl Harbor, said Navy spokeswoman Agnes Tauyan.
Tauyan said the driver suffered black eyes and a possible broken nose. Base police and emergency medical technicians responded. The driver was checked and refused treatment, Tauyan said.
Cong Ha said his brother, Tho Ha, a driver for The Cab, picked up the sailor in Waikiki, and drove him to Pearl Harbor. The Cab has a contract with the Navy to drive onto the base, officials said.
"His face is swollen. Now he cannot work," Cong Ha said.
Tauyan said disciplinary action will be taken by the ship. The Lincoln left Sunday for San Diego and Everett, Wash., after a daylong visit to Hawai'i following a nine-month deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Driver charged in pedestrian death
HILO, Hawai'i — Police arrested a Hamakua man for investigation of drunken driving after a 55-year-old man was struck and killed while walking along Mamalahoa Highway early yesterday.
The victim, identified as Johnelle William Alfonso of Honoka'a, was walking on the mauka side of the highway near Tex Drive In and Restaurant in Hamakua at about 2:30 a.m. when he was hit by a Hilo-bound vehicle. He was pronounced dead at Hilo Medical Center at 6:42 a.m.
The 47-year-old driver was arrested and charged.
Police find missing woman
Police yesterday found 24-year-old Raynalyn Longa, reported missing Sunday.
"She's fine," said Officer Phil Camero of the HPD Missing Persons Detail. He declined comment on where the woman was found at 5:15 a.m. yesterday.
Motorcyclist critically injured
A 21-year-old man was critically injured Monday when thrown from his 2001 Suzuki motorcycle while trying to avoid a collision with a car at the intersection of Wilder Avenue and Kewalo Street in Makiki.
He was taken to The Queen's Medical Center, which declined to release further information.
The accident was reported to police at 2:25 p.m.
