Posted on: Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Hawai'i briefs
Advertiser Staff
HONOLULU
Ex-guard gets 15-year term
Circuit Judge Karl Sakamoto yesterday sentenced former youth corrections officer Li'a "Oli" Olione to 15 years in prison for sexual assault and terroristic threatening involving a teenage girl prisoner. As part of the plea agreement, Olione may be eligible for parole after nine years.
Olione, 44, was arrested by the FBI in American Samoa last September.
Teen critical after collision
Police said yesterday that the driver critically injured Monday night in a Kalihi wreck was a 16-year-old Kane'ohe boy.
Police said the boy lost control of a speeding 1997 Ford Mustang traveling south on Likelike Highway near Nala-nieha Street shortly after 9 p.m. The car slid across the roadway and slammed into a 1997 Mazda pickup truck in the left-turn lane before crashing into a guardrail.
The boy was at The Queen's Medical Center. The other driver was not injured.
KAUAI'I
Man dies despite water rescue PRINCEVILLE, Kaua'i — A 46-year-old Arizona man died Monday of an apparent drowning near the Queen's Bath in Princeville.
County officials identified the man as Alfred Ramirez of Mesa, Ariz. Ramirez was snorkeling just west of the Queen's Bath pool area when he appeared to be struggling against the swells, officials said. The victim's 23-year-old son swam out to his father, using a body board as a flotation device. Two kayakers assisted as well.
Water safety officers brought Ramirez to shore at Black Pot Beach Park and performed CPR. He was pronounced dead at Wilcox Memorial Hospital.
Rx Plus sign-up today on Kaua'i
The state Department of Human Services will sign up residents who qualify for discounts on their prescription drugs in three Kaua'i communities today.
State human services director Lillian Koller estimates that about 300,000 people qualify statewide.
Koller said discounts are available to residents with no prescription drug insurance or those whose insurance pays only a portion of their prescription costs.
Enrollment will be from 8 to 9:30 a.m. at the Waimea Neighborhood Center, 10 to 11:30 a.m. at the Lihu'e Neighborhood Center, and 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Kapa'a Neighborhood Center.
For more information about Hawai'i Rx Plus or to request an application, go to www.hawaiirxplus.com. Navy evacuates injured divers
A Navy helicopter crew yesterday evacuated two injured divers off the cruise ship Pride of Aloha about five miles off Kekaha on Kaua'i.
One diver received a serious leg injury and another received a serious arm injury off the Na Pali coast, possibly in a boat accident, the Navy said.
The H-3 Sea King based with the aviation operations branch at the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Barking Sands took them to Lihu'e Airport where an ambulance was waiting, PMRF spokesman Tom Clements said. The two pilots were Lt. Adam Schultz and Lt. Bill Reilein.
