Posted at 12:59 p.m., Wednesday, January 7, 2004
Police Beat
Advertiser Staff
Officer arrested in threat caseA 12-year veteran Honolulu police officer was arrested early yesterday on charges of terroristic threatening.
Officer Harry Kahoano, 35, has been removed from patrol duty and reassigned to an administrative position with pay, pending the outcome of an internal and criminal investigation, Police Chief Lee Donohue said.
Kahoano allegedly threatened his estranged wife's boyfriend on Sunday. The officer was arrested around
1 a.m. at the Pearl City substation, where he is assigned.
Woman dies following crash
KA'U, Hawai'i — A 40-year-old woman died last night at Kona Community Hospital about seven hours after crashing her car into a utility pole at the Hawaiian Ocean View Estates subdivision.
Big Island police identified the woman as Elizabeth Mathewson of Hawaiian Ocean View Estates.
Mathewson was speeding in a 1986 Toyota station wagon that rear-ended a 1981 Jaguar on Koa Lane at 11:45 a.m., police said. Mathewson lost control of her car and was ejected when it hit the utility pole, according to police. The driver of the Jaguar was not injured.
