HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Wrecked vessel to be removed
Advertiser Staff
HILO — Owners of a 67-foot fishing boat that ran aground along the Puna Coast last week will be unable to salvage the vessel, and are making plans to remove the wreck.
A spokeswoman for the state Department of Land and Natural Resources said natural hazards at the wreck site two miles south of Cape Kumukahi Point on the Big Island "might obstruct any seaward movement of the ship, and so the decision was made to begin to look at the feasibility of a wreck removal."
Contractors are preparing proposals to remove the vessel, which is stuck a half-mile north of Wai'opae Tidepools, a state Marine Life Conservation District. No date has been set for the removal.
O'AHU
SIX-YEAR TERM IN METH CONVICTION
The husband of a former Navy sailor was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court to 6 1/2 years in prison after he was convicted of conspiring with his wife and another man to cook methamphetamine in a Navy family housing complex.
Jimmy Yasay, 45, operated the lab in Radford Terrace with his wife, Petty Officer Teresa Moss, and Faleu Liilii, prosecutors said.
The trio cooked meth for an undisclosed period of time until they were caught in July 2004. Moss received seven years in prison after she was convicted by a Navy general court martial in November 2004.
Federal investigators caught onto the trio after Moss tested positive for methamphetamine during a random drug test administered by the Navy, according to the U.S. attorney's office.
Liilii was sentenced in November 2004 to 2 1/2 years in prison.
MAUI
SHARK SIGHTING CLOSES BEACHES
KIHEI — Officials will meet at 7 a.m. today to decide whether to reopen a stretch of South Maui shoreline that was closed to swimmers after a shark sighting yesterday.
The coastline from Kalama Park to Kama'ole Beach Park II, which include some of the region's most popular beaches, was closed shortly after 11 a.m. when a Maui Fire Department helicopter spotted an 8-foot tiger shark about 200 yards off the Kama'ole park.
The area from Polo Beach in Wailea to Kama'ole Beach Park III in Kihei was closed Tuesday after a swimmer was attacked by a tiger shark off Keawakapu Beach. Jonathan Genant, 29, of San Diego, lost the pinkie finger on his left hand and part of his ring finger in the attack.
A 10- to 12-foot shark was spotted in the area shortly after the attack.
KALIHI VALLEY
CHURCH TO GIVE AWAY BLANKETS
Hawai'i Cedar Church will be distributing 50 new blankets to the homeless Tuesday following its weekly 11 a.m. outreach service and lunch.
The church is at 1545 Kamehameha IV Road.
The church hosted a Christmas party for the homeless at Ala Moana Park and had hoped to give out 50 donated blankets as prizes for a talent show. People, however, walked off with the blankets before the contest.
