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Halawa prison guard indicted
An O'ahu grand jury yesterday indicted Denis Aplaca, a corrections officer at the Halawa Correctional Facility, on 32 counts of sexual assault.
Aplaca, 62, was arrested Friday and charged with eight counts each of first- and second-degree sex assault and 16 counts of third-degree sex assault. He is being held in lieu of $100,000 bail.
The indictment alleges that the assaults were against a teenage girl, taking place over a three-year period.
Police seek Kailua home invader
Police are searching for a man wanted in connection with a home-invasion burglary June 25 in Kailua in which a resident was injured.
The intruder entered the woman's 'Aikahi Park home at about 1:30 p.m. through an unlocked door, police said.
The woman awoke from a nap while the thief was rummaging through her living room and bedroom, police said.
The woman spotted the intruder in her hallway and tried to chase him away, police said. He shoved the woman, who fell over a chair, suffering injuries to her arm and leg.
Witnesses told police the man drove away in a small beige Toyota or Honda with a license plate that may have included **W222.
Four men wanted in assault, robbery
Four men who hit a man with a croquet mallet and robbed him in a Kailua neighborhood early yesterday are being sought by police.
The men were driving through Enchanted Lake at between 4:30 and 5:30 a.m. when they spotted a 48-year-old man and demanded money from him, police said.
One of the men struck the victim with the mallet, knocking him to the ground. The robbers searched his pockets for money and fled, police said.
Shots fired in Kaua'i car chase
LIHU'E, Kaua'i — A Kaua'i police officer fired gunshots at a car Tuesday afternoon after the driver used the car to make "an offensive move" toward the officer, the mayor's office said.
The officer had been chasing a car that had been reported stolen. The vehicle's driver turned into a dead-end street in Wailua Homesteads, turned the car around and then drove it toward the police officer.
Police said several shots were fired, but no one was injured. The driver of the reported stolen car, Lee Haumea, 21, was arrested at the scene. Authorities did not release the charges on which he was held.
