Escapee, 33, faces long terms after guilty plea
Advertiser Staff
One of two women inmates who escaped from the O'ahu Community Correctional Center in April pleaded guilty in Circuit Court yesterday to a charge of second-degree escape.
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Kimberly Takata, 33, had been housed at the correctional center in Kalihi while awaiting trial on charges of fraudulent use of a credit card, forgery, theft and identity theft. She pleaded no contest to those charges yesterday.
Kimberly Takata will be sentenced June 25.
Takata and inmate Michelle Rene Padilla, 27, slipped out of a holding area at the jail and were captured separately three days later.
Takata faces up to five years in prison on the theft, credit card, forgery and escape charges and up to 10 years on the identity theft charge.
Circuit Judge Marie Milks told Takata that if the prosecution requests Takata's sentences to run consecutively, and she grants the request, Takata would face a maximum term of 30 years.
And the prosecution may seek other sentencing options, such as having Takata deemed a persistent offender, professional criminal or multiple offender, whereupon each of the sentences could be doubled, Milks said.
Takata is to be sentenced June 25.
