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Homeless man attack suspect

Plainclothes police yesterday arrested a man in Kahalu'u on suspicion of assault in connection with an attack on an apartment manager Monday in Kane'ohe.

The manager, a 55-year-old man, was kicked, punched and body-slammed after finding a man in a vacant apartment. The manager was treated at The Queen's Medical Center for a broken jaw and other injuries. He will also require oral surgery, police said. The assailant fled.

Police arrested a homeless man at Pulama Road and Pulama Place.

Canal search fails to find gun

Police yesterday searched the Kapalama Canal for a gun connected to a Jan. 7 shooting at the Pali municipal golf course that left two people dead.

Lt. Bill Kato, who heads the Honolulu Police Department's homicide and career criminal units, supervised the 90-minute search by a Navy diver using a magnet, seeking the weapon used in the slaying of Lepo Utu Taliese and Romilius Corpuz.

Kato faces demotion and a transfer out of the Criminal Investigation Division for procedural violations that includes failure to see that members of his career criminal unit wore bullet-proof vests during an enforcement operation to arrest fugitive Shane Mark at the Kapolei Shopping Center last year. Gaspar was shot by Mark.

The canal search from 9:30 to 11 a.m. turned up nothing.