Posted on: Friday, December 31, 2004
HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Pickup rollover victim, 19, dies
Advertiser Staff
WAILUKU, Maui — One of the victims in Sunday's rollover of a pickup truck containing 14 teenagers has died.
Maui police said Elise Vida of Wailuku died Monday, just days after her 19th birthday. She was a front-seat passenger in a 2004 Nissan Frontier that hit an embankment on Hali'imaile Road and overturned. The driver was a 16-year-old Kihei boy with a driver's permit.
Seven people were sitting in the extended cab of the truck and seven others were in the truck bed when the accident occurred at 11:18 p.m. west of Ho'omale Place. Police initially reported there were only 13 people in the vehicle.
All were taken to Maui Memorial Medical Center; several of them still are hospitalized.
Maui County has had 21 traffic fatalities this year, compared with 16 a year ago.
HILO, Hawai'i — A Big Island grand jury has indicted two teenagers with first-degree armed robbery in a holdup at a home in Pahoa on Nov. 24.
Michael R. Kapika, 19, of Pahoa also was charged with two firearms offenses in connection with the alleged robbery of a Puna man.
Dysen Nakano-Domen, 18, of Wai'anae, was indicted for first-degree robbery and being an accomplice in first-degree burglary. He also was indicted for terroristic threatening, kidnapping and two firearms violations.
Police said Nakano-Domen, Kapika and two other men were arrested after a Pahoa resident reported that three men wearing ski masks and brandishing handguns demanded property from him. The men took an undisclosed amount of cash and fled in a car that was driven by a fourth man, police said.
Teens indicted in Big Island robbery
