Posted at 12:29 p.m., Tuesday, January 6, 2004
Police Beat
Advertiser Staff
Missing hiker rescued todayFire rescue specialists today rescued a California woman who was reported missing yesterday while on a hike along the Manana trail above Pacific Palisades in Pearl City.
Joy Simmons, 26, was spotted in a stream bed by one of two helicopters searching for her today, said Honolulu Fire Department spokesman Capt. Kenison Tejada. "She was cold but showed no signs of major injuries," Tejada said.
Simmons was taken to Kapi'olani Medical Center-Pali Momi.
Simmons said she became separated from her hiking party when she went down stream from a waterfall to swim and took a wrong turn on her way back up to the waterfall.
Police assisted in the search effort.
Man who died in crash identified
The medical examiner's office today identified the 78-year-old man who died Friday after crashing his car into a wall in the parking lot of One Kalakaua Living center as Calvin Y. Ishikawa.
Cause of death has been deferred pending further lab tests. Ishikawa's death is not classified as a traffic fatality because it occurred on private property.
Man robbed in his parking lot
A 24-year-old man told police he was robbed today in the parking lot of his 'Amana Street apartment building by a man carrying a shotgun. The robber demanded the man's wallet and cell phone and searched his car, police said.
The robbery was reported at 2:15 a.m. The robber fled in a white Nissan sedan driven by another man.
Pedestrian killed on highway ID'd
KAPA'A, Kaua'i A 49-year-old woman who died at Wilcox Memorial Hospital after being struck by a vehicle while crossing Kuhio Highway yesterday was identified today by police as Penelope Hardenbergh.
Autopsy set in death of doctor
LIHU'E, Kaua'i The body of a physician from Kalaheo who was reported missing Sunday was found yesterday off Koke'e Road. An autopsy on Dr. Dean Thomas is scheduled to determine the cause of death, said Lt. Dean Pigao.
DUI arrests rise 23% on Big Isle
HILO, Hawai'i Big Island police arrested 1,075 motorists for drunken driving in 2003, which was a 23 percent increase from last year. Of the total, 188 drivers were involved in traffic collisions at the time of their arrests while 161 others were under the legal drinking age of 21.
Six of 35 traffic deaths on Big Island roadways were alcohol-related.
Despite the stepped-up enforcement, the Big Island experienced a 5 percent increase in major accidents with 2,363 in 2003.