Posted on: Friday, May 20, 2005
POLICE BEAT
Island man dies in Mississippi prison
Advertiser Staff
A Hawai'i inmate who was sent to a prison in Tutwiler, Miss., died Wednesday of apparent natural causes, said a spokesman with the Hawai'i Department of Public Safety.
Gilbert Ebanies, 65, told other inmates that he was not feeling well and went back to his cell, the spokesman said. A short while later Ebanies was found unconscious and not breathing.
Ebanies was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The spokesman said Ebanies had a history of health problems and that an autopsy will be done.
Ebanies was serving a 10-year sentence at the Tallahatchie Correctional Facility for a second-degree sexual-assault conviction. He was sentenced in July 2000 and had a tentative parole date of October 2009.
A 21-year-old Wai'anae man was arrested yesterday in connection with the knife-point robbery of a man Monday in Kalihi.
The man was being held last night and faced charges of first-degree robbery and kidnapping.
At about 9:30 p.m. Monday, a man told police he withdrew cash from an automated teller machine in Kalihi and went to his car. That's when a robber with a knife got into the car with him and drove off.
The robber took money from the man and continued to drive the car while demanding more money, police said. The victim managed to get out of the vehicle and flee uninjured, police said.
Early yesterday morning, police spotted a man who matched the description of the robber on North School Street in Kalihi. The man was arrested and identified by the victim, police said.
Robbery suspect nabbed in Kalihi
