POLICE BEAT
Texas fugitive caught in Hilo
Advertiser Staff
The U.S. Marshals Service's Hawai'i Fugitive Task Force arrested Kimball Dean Strickland, 44, yesterday at his Hilo residence on Kaunalua Street on a $35,000 felony theft warrant from Texas.
The task force received a request for assistance from Texas last week to arrest Strickland, who was wanted for posing as a roofing contractor and allegedly scamming residents during Hurricane Rita in 2005.
CRASH VICTIM WAS NON-TRAFFIC FATALITY
Honolulu police have reclassified the Jan. 1 death of 73-year-old Harry Kozuma at Luakini Street and Jack Lane to a non-traffic fatality after the medical examiner ruled that he died of a medical condition just before his car crashed.
O'ahu's traffic fatality count stood at 27 as of yesterday.
