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3 years probation in airport gun case
A 27-year-old Pearl City woman was sentenced yesterday to three years probation and six months home detention for attempting to pass through a security checkpoint at Honolulu International Airport earlier this year with a .25-caliber gun in her sock.
Federal Judge Susan Mollway also ordered Princess Kapiolani Samonte to pay a $1,000 fine.
Samonte attempted to pass through a checkpoint at the airport on Jan. 24 and was arrested.
She told investigators she had taken the gun along on a previous trip without a problem.
Samonte said she carried the gun for protection.
Toddler's injuries investigated
Police have opened an assault case after a 14-month-old girl suffered burns to her face yesterday.
The girl was taken to the Wai'anae Coast Comprehensive Health Center at about noon suffering from second-degree burns. Police were told that the girl had been playing in a garage on Haleakala Avenue when she fell and hit a makeshift stove.
Police said the girl was in the care of her 24-year-old aunt at the time.
No arrests had been made last night.
Ex-teacher gets jail time in porn case
A former Waiau Elementary School teacher was sentenced in federal court yesterday to three years and 10 months in federal prison for storing child-pornography images in his home computer and distributing those images.
Federal Judge Susan Mollway also fined Keith Akana $2,000.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Lawrence Tong said an investigation of child pornography involving a Wisconsin man led investigators to Akana, 46, after it was learned that the address of Akana's home computer showed up on the "buddy list" stored in the Wisconsin man's computer.
Tong said the illegal images appeared only on the laptop computer Akana kept at home and did not involve computers at the school where Akana taught. Nor did any of the images involve children at the school, Tong said.
Sobbing heavily, Akana apologized for his actions and told Mollway he recognizes he needs to obtain help for his pornography problem.
Guilty plea entered on porn charge
A 24-year-old woman faces a maximum prison term of five years after pleading guilty in federal court on Thursday to possession of child pornography.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Larry Tong, said Lani Hansen, a junior at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa, admitted to storing still photographs and movies of child pornography in her computer.
Hansen is scheduled to be sentenced May 24 by federal Judge David Ezra.
