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Hit-and-run suspect freed

A 46-year-old man arrested Sunday on suspicion of being the driver of a van involved in a hit-and-run accident Saturday at Kapahulu Avenue and Date Street has been released pending further investigation.

The man has no permanent address.

A 6-year-old boy and two women, ages 29 and 70, were injured while crossing the street.

Brief standoff ends in arrest

Police arrested a 39-year-old Waipahu man Monday on suspicion of punching his wife in the face and then firing several shots in the air from a semiautomatic pistol in the back yard of his Kahuanani Street home.

First-degree reckless endangering and abuse of a household member charges are pending against the man.

The man was involved in a brief standoff with police but surrendered at 7:55 p.m.

Rock-thrower at airport charged

LIHU'E, Kaua'i — A man arrested after he threw a rock at a Hawaiian Airlines plane at Lihu'e Airport on Monday was charged with trespassing, terroristic threatening, attempted assault and criminal property damage.

Police said John P. Meyers, 36, of Lihu'e, jumped a fence at the airport and ran across the apron toward the airplane.

A rock thrown at the plane damaged the windshield frame.

Meyers was confronted by both Hawaiian and Aloha airlines ramp agents and reportedly slashed at them with a utility knife before he was subdued. None of the airline workers was hurt.