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Posted at 11:15 a.m., Wednesday, August 20, 2003

Police Beat

Advertiser Staff

Machete incident leads to charges

An 18-year-old man was charged yesterday with threatening another man with a machete during a July 3 traffic dispute at Dillingham Boulevard and North King Street.

Henry Dela Cruz, who has no permanent address, was charged with first-degree terroristic threatening. Dela Cruz was being held in lieu of $20,000 bail.

Dela Cruz was arrested Monday after the victim of the alleged attack saw him in the parking lot of Honolulu Community College and called police. He and another man, who was still at large, allegedly threatened the victim with a machete and hatchet during a traffic-related argument.

Man, 37, stabbed near A'ala Park

Police are investigating the stabbing of a 37-year-old man who was trying to break up a fight last night at 901 Kekaulike St., near A'ala Park.

The injured man, stabbed in the chest with a broken beer bottle, was taken to The Queen’s Medical Center in stable condition.

Police were seeking charges against a 33-year-old man arrested on suspicion of second-degree assault.

Wailuku man faces federal ice charges

WAILUKU, Maui — A 32-year-old Wailuku man has been charged in a federal complaint with intent to distribute more than two ounces of crystal methamphetamine.

Keoki A. Astronomo, aka Keokoi Astronomo, was arrested Saturday by agents of the U.S. Marshals Service’s Hawai'i Fugitive Task Force at 845 Kelawea St. in Lahaina. According to a complaint filed Monday, Astronomo attracted the attention of agents who had gone to the address on other business because he was wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet on his ankle.

Astronomo was asked for identification, and while retrieving his Hawai'i driver’s license from a fanny pack, agents noticed a large plastic bag containing a crystalline substance and a type of cigarette lighter commonly used for drug-smoking pipes.

Agents seized two ounces of crystal meth, and small amounts of cocaine and marijuana.