Police arrest fugitive
By Rod Ohira and Scott Ishikawa
Advertiser Staff Writers
William Jackson Barnes, who has a history of eluding the law by using getaway vehicles to ram police cars, surrendered quietly this time to police today.
Barnes, suspected of attempting to run over a police officer with a stolen Mercedes Jan. 4, was arrested at 12:20 p.m. in the Pauoa area for a parole violation, police said. He was booked for investigation of attempted murder.
William Jackson Barnes was arrested at 12:20 p.m. today.
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Barnes was driving a car at the time of his arrest but did not resist, police said. HPD Criminal Investigation Division detectives from the auto theft and major crimes details made the arrest.
According to police, the 38-year-old Barnes rammed an HPD vehicle and nearly ran over a police officer on foot Jan. 4 while fleeing from a traffic stop on Cleghorn Street in Waikiki.
The police officer driving the rammed HPD vehicle suffered neck injuries, while the officer who dove out of the path of the oncoming car had cuts and bruises. The Mercedes used in the incident was recovered Jan. 8 in Kaimuki.
Barnes had been convicted for using another stolen Mercedes to ram two police cars at Date and La'au streets on Jan. 13, 1994 and for driving a stolen car into three HPD vehicles in Kalihi Valley at the Wilson Tunnel to escape from police on Feb. 12, 1994.
It took police in 1994 more than a month to capture Barnes, and a CrimeStoppers tip led to his arrest at a Waikiki health club on Feb. 16. He was indicted later that month on two counts of auto theft and seven counts related to damaging a total of five police cars.
Barnes has 16 felony convictions, which include assault, criminal property damage, theft, auto theft and hit-and-run accidents.
