A 35-year-old man was charged yesterday with illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition, and ordered held without bail.

Valentin Lacuona was stopped Thursday by police at Kipapa Drive and Naholoholo Street in Mililani on suspicion of driving a car with illegal tinted windows.

During the stop, the officer saw a semi-automatic pistol and what appeared to be narcotics on the front seat. Lacuona was booked on suspicion of parole violation, being a felon in possession of a gun and ammunition, promotion of dangerous and detrimental drugs, and a drug paraphernalia offense.

Driver stricken before accident

An autopsy determined a 47-year-old Kane'ohe man involved in a Nov. 5 single-car crash on the H-1 Freeway at the Kunia Road exit died of heart failure rather than accident injuries. Police investigators said Mark K. Valdez collapsed at the wheel of his 1984 Ford Bronco before the vehicle drifted from the center lane and struck a concrete median.

Valdez died at St. Francis Medical Center-West.

Body found by divers identified

The body of a man found yesterday by Honolulu Fire Department divers in 15 feet of water nears moorings outside the Ke'ehi Small Boat Harbor was identified by family members as 19-year-old Dayne Daclison of Waipahu, said fire spokesman Capt. Kenison Tejada.

Daclison and another man, identified by the Coast Guard as 21-year-old Lawrence Palafox, paddled an inflatable dinghy from the harbor with one oar shortly before midnight Monday. As the boat drifted out, the two men decided to swim back to shore but became separated.

Palafox swam to a moored sailboat and set off flares.

Toddler drowns in Wai'anae

A 20-month-old boy apparently fell into a fishpond and drowned in Wai'anae yesterday afternoon, officials said.

Fire Capt. Kenison Tejada said a call to a Maipaloa Street address came in at 12:47 p.m. Firefighters and rescue workers arrived to find a family member performing CPR on the child. Paramedics took over and brought the boy to a hospital where he died, Tejada said.