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Maui victim's name withheld
WAILUKU, Maui — Maui police used fingerprints to identify a 35-year-old victim of an apparent homicide, but they are withholding his name until relatives are notified.
The body of a 6-foot Caucasian man weighing about 170 pounds was found early Saturday morning at Kalama Park in Kihei. The body had stab wounds.
Anyone with information on the case should call Maui Crime Stoppers at (808) 242-6966 or the Maui Police Department at (808) 244-6400
Pedestrian killed Friday identified
The medical examiner's office has identified the pedestrian who died Friday at Kapi'olani Medical Center-Pali Momi after being struck by a car near Halawa Heights Road as Stephen Tokunaga, 42, of Waipahu.
Tokunaga was crossing Ulune Street near Pohue Street at 7:40 a.m. Friday when he was struck by a 1996 Honda driven by an 'Aiea man.
In an unrelated case, an autopsy determined that 25-year-old McKenna Victor died of heart failure and not from injuries related to the crash of his tow truck Thursday on Kamokila Boulevard and Nau Place in Kapolei.
Police search for Black Point burglar
Police yesterday were looking for a man, possibly armed, after a burglary of a Black Point house in which the resident returned home and was confronted by two intruders.
Police said they arrested one man on 12th Avenue in Kaimuki after an officer spotted a silver Dodge Intrepid described as the getaway car.
The resident, described as a man in his 40s, returned at midday to his home on the 1300 block of Papu Circle, police said. He encountered two men, who threatened him with a weapon, police said.
Everyone ran outside the house and the burglars drove off. The resident was not hurt. It was not known if the burglars took anything.
10 years possible in child porn case
A Maui man is facing a 10-year prison term after pleading guilty in federal court to a charge of receiving three child pornography videotapes through the mail.
Edward John Dugan, 43, admitted receiving the tapes knowing they contained child pornography.
U.S. Attorney Ed Kubo said U.S. postal inspectors arrested a Florida resident for commercial promotion of child pornography and later learned that Dugan had purchased videotapes from the Florida source in 1998 and had them shipped to his Kihei address.
In April 2003, postal inspectors sent Dugan a brochure offering other child pornography tapes for sale and Dugan ordered three of them, Kubo said. Dugan was arrested after taking the tapes and is to be sentenced Oct. 25 by U.S. District Judge David Ezra.
He pleaded guilty on Thursday.
