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Couple hospitalized after break-in
A Salt Lake couple was in stable condition at The Queen's Medical Center last night after being beaten in their home early yesterday morning.
Police said that at about 3:10 a.m. yesterday two men entered the Salt Lake Boulevard home of the 48-year-old man and his wife. Wielding baseball bats, the men demanded drugs from the couple. Receiving none, the men proceeded to beat the couple with the bats.
Police are looking for three men, the two who entered the house and a third who may have served as a lookout. All three are wanted on suspicion of first-degree burglary and first-degree robbery.
Former prosecutor pleads no contest
Former Honolulu Prosecutor Charles Marsland Jr. has pleaded no contest to a charge of failing to report an accident at a Hawai'i Kai shopping center.
Marsland entered his plea Wednesday before District Judge Christopher McKenzie, who suspended a $100 fine requested by Deputy Attorney General Colleen Chun. Marsland was required to pay $27 in court fees.
Marsland, 80, was parking his car at Hawaii Kai Towne Center on Sept. 14 when his car scraped the side of another car. He then went to get a haircut after parking his car.
Defense attorney Darwin Ching says Marsland was unaware that he hit the car. He said Marsland's insurance company covered repairs to the other car.
After the trial, Marsland apologized to the owner of the other car.
CPA sentenced for income tax evasion
A Honolulu certified public accountant has been sentenced to two years and three months in federal prison for evading personal income taxes.
Under a plea agreement, Raymond Nip, 64, was convicted of failing to report income on his tax return for 1994.
According to court documents, Nip failed to report income of $533,784.07 from 1993 to 1997, and Nip owned the Internal Revenue Service an additional $212,875 in taxes, U.S. Attorney Edward H. Kubo Jr. said.
The unreported income consisted of money earned through Nip's accounting practice and $202,896.79 in payroll taxes he collected from a client but failed to remit to the IRS.
During sentencing this week before U.S. District Judge David A. Ezra, Nip admitted using the embezzled money to pay personal debts and to maintain his lifestyle, Kubo said.
