Posted on: Tuesday, June 28, 2005
HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Suspect sought in car-ramming
Advertiser Staff
Police were looking for a 32-year-old man in connection with an incident at the former Barbers Point Naval Air Station at Kalaeloa on Saturday in which a woman claimed a man twice rammed her car with his.
The woman, 49, told police that she and the passenger in her car stopped about 11 a.m. to help a woman who appeared to be arguing with a man. The woman who stopped to help said the man became enraged, got into his car and deliberately rammed her car twice before running away.
Police were called to the scene and determined the car the man used had been taken during a robbery.
No one was injured during the incident, which police classified as an attempted second-degree murder.
KEAUHOU, Hawai'i — A 29-year-old man apparently drowned Sunday in the ocean off Keauhou in Kona.
Big Island police said Kevin Ray Hunt of Honalo was found unconscious in the water at about 6:20 p.m. at the south end of Ali'i Drive. He was pronounced dead at 7:16 p.m. at Kona Community Hospital. An autopsy will be done to determine the exact cause of death.
Lazo turned himself in Sunday and was picked up at Anderton Camp in Papa'ikou and charged with second-degree escape, police said.
Lazo and Kyle Quilausing, 31, escaped from the prison by tying bed sheets together to use as a rope to climb up to a window and out onto the roof before jumping over a fence. Quilausing remains at large.
Police also are looking for an inmate who escaped Friday from the Department of Public Safety's Hale Nani Work Furlough Center in Hilo.
Lorrin S. Nakapalau, 27, of Miloli'i, ran out of the facility at about 11:10 a.m. and drove off in his blue pickup truck. Police said he was later seen in Kona. Nakapalau had been allowed out in the community on extended work furlough, officials said.
He is described as 5 feet 8 and about 160 pounds, with brown hair and eyes.
Anyone with information on the escapees should call the police nonemergency number at (808) 935-3311, or CrimeStoppers in Hilo at (808) 961-8300 or in Kona at (808) 329-8181.
HILO, Hawai'i — Big Island police charged a 19-year-old man with attempted assault and other crimes Sunday while investigating a domestic abuse case in Puna.
Officers were called to a home in the Fern Forest subdivision Saturday afternoon and found James H. Inada standing in the driveway with several knifes, a .357-caliber Magnum revolver tucked in his belt and a lit "Molotov cocktail" device, police said. Inada allegedly threatened the two officers and threw the device at them. The fire was put out and police subdued the suspect with pepper spray.
Witnesses told police that Inada was arguing with his 19-year-old girlfriend when Inada's 54-year-old father tried to intervene. Inada allegedly threatened his father with a knife and the two struggled, police said. The girlfriend was punched and bitten by the suspect while helping the elder Inada disarm the man, police said.
After relinquishing the knife, Inada grabbed the unloaded revolver from the home. When he was arrested, police found 16 knives in his possession.
The following day, detectives charged him with two counts of first-degree attempted assault, terroristic threatening, two firearm counts, and abuse of a family member.
KAPALUA, Maui — The federal Transportation Security Administration will begin screening certain passengers and baggage at Kapalua West Maui Airport today.
TSA officials determined that the airport must meet federal security standards and screen commercial scheduled airline service involving aircraft with 19 or more passenger seats, according to the state Department of Transportation.
Passengers and baggage of commercial airlines with aircraft that have less than 19 seats and/or provide on-demand flight service will not have to undergo TSA screening.
Travelers using airlines affected by the screening are advised to add 10 to 15 minutes to their travel schedule. For more information, visit the TSA Web site at www.tsa.gov.
Breakthroughs for Youth at Risk, a six-year-old outreach program, was awarded a $125,000 grant from the state's Department of Defense to hold a seven-day intensive program for 40 seventh- and eighth-graders at Kailua Intermediate School.
Part of the grant will be used to fund a 10-month follow-up program intended to turn around at-risk youths.
The group is also looking for volunteers to serve as mentors and coaches. Call 779-7294 or 372-4115 for more information.
The state Department of Health is preparing a report on whether the Transportation Security Administration is meeting storage and disposal standards for the large quantities of cigarette lighters it is confiscating from air travelers.
Responding to a complaint from a former employee, two investigators from the Health Department's solid and hazardous waste branch visited TSA's Honolulu airport facilities Thursday to ensure the agency is complying with state health codes.
TSA officials could not be reached for comment last night.
Steven Chang, program manager for the Health Department's solid and hazardous waste branch, said TSA is disposing of the lighters in a timely and acceptable fashion. He said the department will issue a list of recommendations that will highlight practices TSA can use to ensure complete compliance with state health codes.
Lighters were banned from flights into and from the United States by a federal law that went into effect April 15.
Honalo man likely drowned
Escapee arrested; two others at large
HILO, Hawai'i — Big Island police have arrested Ludy L. Lazo, 35, who escaped June 21 from the Hawai'i Community Correctional Center on Punahele Street in Hilo.
Kyle Quilausing
Lorrin Nakapalau
Suspect charged in assault case
Kapalua airport screening begins
Youth program granted $125,000
State to monitor TSA procedures
