HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Police seek help in solving death
Advertiser Staff
CrimeStoppers and the Honolulu Police Department's Homicide Detail are asking the public's assistance in the investigation of the death of Jaime Pablico-Davis.
Pablico-Davis, 20, was reported missing Friday. Family members last saw her in the downtown area Dec. 3. Police are especially looking for anyone who may have had contact with her after this date.
Her body was found Saturday at 58-160 Kamehameha Highway near the UH experimental farm.
Calls are being taken directly by Det. Kathy Osmond at 529-3080 or anonymous calls to CrimeStoppers at 955-8300, *CRIME on your cellular phone.
Pablico-Davis is described as being of Caucasian/Japanese/Filipino descent, 5 feet, 95 pounds, slim build with long brown hair, brown eyes and tan complexion. She was last seen wearing a white T-shirt, short denim overalls and black slippers.
CrimeStoppers will pay a cash reward of up to $1,000 for information that leads to the arrest of a suspect.
WAIMANALO
2 men attack police officer
A Honolulu police officer suffered minor injuries when he was attacked by two men while attempting to arrest one of them in Waimanalo yesterday.
The plainclothes officer was investigating an auto theft case when he found the 27-year-old suspect at a Waimanalo home at about 4:15 p.m. When the officer attempted to arrest the man, police said, the suspect resisted and the two began to struggle.
Police said another man then grabbed the officer from behind, allowing the first man to beat the officer. Other officers arrived at the scene and subdued the 27-year-old, police said.
Police said the other man, 42, fled and had not been arrested as of late last night. Both men face charges of assaulting a police officer.
HONOLULU
Man injured in fiery H-1 crash
One person was seriously injured last night when a car crashed into a wall on the H-1 Freeway near the airport off-ramp and caught fire.
The accident occurred at about 9:35 p.m. in the westbound lanes near the airport. The car hit a wall before catching fire, Emergency Medical Services personnel said.
A male was pulled from the car and initially was listed in critical condition. He was taken to The Queen's Medical Center, where his condition was not available last night.
BIG ISLAND
Kumu hula faces charges in death
HILO, Hawai'i — A Big Island grand jury has indicted kumu hula Rae Fonseca for first-degree negligent homicide in a crash last year that killed a Big Island man.
Fonseca also was charged with operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant at the time of the Dec. 13, 2003, collision in the Eden Roc Estates subdivision, according to the indictment.
Fonseca, who leads Halau Hula 'O Kahikilaulani of Hilo, is generally identified in news accounts as Ray Fonseca.
Police said Michael R. Spens of Mountain View was riding his moped east on Pala'inui Street shortly before 7:20 p.m. when he collided head-on with a westbound sport utility vehicle allegedly driven by Fonseca, 51, also of Mountain View.
Spens died the next day at Hilo Medical Center.
KAPOLEI
Ground broken on homes project
The state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands has broken ground for a 326-lot, 53.3-acre development in Kapolei, the largest housing project the agency has ever attempted.
Infrastructure work for the project, called Kaupe'a, will cost $19.3 million and is being financed through the Native Hawaiian Trust Fund and Native American Housing and Self-Determination Act funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Site improvements are expected to be completed in 18 months and construction on the first increment of homes will begin next fall. Residents are expected to begin moving into the homes in spring 2006.
'EWA BEACH
17 arrested in warrant sweep
Seventeen people were arrested by Honolulu police yesterday in a warrant sweep in 'Ewa Beach.
Bail for people wanted on outstanding warrants totaled $32,000.
In addition, officers made one drug arrest and issued two citations for illegal camping on the beach.
