Updated at 2:31 p.m., Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Honolulu officer on desk duty after firearms arrest
By Dave Dondoneau
Advertiser Staff Writer
Roosevelt Blanco, 37, was arrested on suspicion of first-degree reckless endangerment, a Class-C felony, shortly at 12:35 a.m. on New Year's day after police responded to a 911 call of a man shooting multiple guns into the air at a Waipahu residence.
Blanco, who has been a police officer for three years, was released at 12:31 p.m. on New Year's Day on his own recognizance.
He has lost all of his police powers and has been assigned to desk duty while Internal Affairs conducts an internal and administrative investigation, said Capt. Frank Fujii, spokesman for the Honolulu Police Department, at a news conference this afternoon.
He is still getting paid, but he's doing clerical work and wearing civilian clothing, Fujii said.
