Posted on: Saturday, December 4, 2004
POLICE BEAT
Maui pit bull impounded again
Advertiser Staff
WAILUKU, Maui — Faust the pit bull is back in custody after two days of freedom.
Maui Humane Society animal control officers yesterday impounded the 90-pound dog after its owner failed to comply with orders to keep the animal indoors with the windows and doors shut.
The dog was impounded by the Maui Humane Society after it attacked Sandra Sardinha, 46, on Nov. 16, tearing off a chunk of her scalp and causing severe bite wounds.
The Maui County Animal Control Board on Wednesday allowed the dog's owner, Scott Barrie of Pukalani, to take Faust home if he complied with a long list of conditions meant to restrict the animal's contact with the public.
Animal Control Director Aimee Anderson, who had wanted the dog euthanized because of previous attacks and concerns that it might escape, said that when an animal control officer visited Barrie's home yesterday to check for compliance, she found an open window. Anderson said she is consulting with county attorneys to determine the dog's fate.
A Honolulu police officer has been indicted on terroristic threatening charges in connection with an incident in which he allegedly threatened his estranged wife with a gun.
An O'ahu grand jury indicted Soukvisan Phanthadara on Tuesday on two counts of first-
degree terroristic threatening and one count of abuse of a family or household member. He is accused of threatening his estranged wife and another man with a gun Nov. 7 in the parking structure at Restaurant Row.
Phanthadara has been on the police force for about a year and is still employed at the Police Department, although his police powers have been revoked, a police spokeswoman said.
The driver of a pickup truck that crashed in Waimanalo in February 2003, killing two people and injuring six others, was indicted this week on manslaughter charges.
Jonathan Namauu was indicted Thursday by an O'ahu grand jury on two counts of manslaughter and on one count each of second- and third-degree assault.
Prosecutors said Namauu was driving a Chevy S10 pickup truck that swerved off Kalaniana'ole Highway on Feb. 1, 2003, and slammed through a concrete pillar and rock wall.
The crash killed Zebedee Leahy, 21, and Jamie Singleton, 17. Both were riding in the open truck bed and were thrown from the vehicle.
The indictment charged Namauu of "recklessly" causing the deaths of Leahy and Singleton, and recklessly causing bodily injury to two other people.
Police officer indicted in threats
Driver indicted in 2003 crash
