HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Man charged for threatening ex
Advertiser Staff
Prosecutors yesterday charged a 32-year-old Ma'ili man for drug possession and allegedly threatening to harm his ex-girlfriend.
Luis D. Torres-Ramos, who has 23 prior convictions according to state criminal records, was charged with first- and second-degree terroristic threatening, fourth-degree criminal property damage to the victim's vehicle, possession of a dangerous weapon, and third-degree promotion of a dangerous drug. Bail is $20,000.
In addition, Torres-Ramos has an outstanding $11,000 probation-revocation warrant.
O'AHU
VOTE FOR BOARDS BY MAIL, ONLINE
It's election time for candidates running for seats on neighborhood boards across O'ahu.
Voters may either fill out the paper ballot that was mailed out Friday or vote online at www.nbvote.com.
Online voters will need a voter number that will be included in the paper ballots.
"We encourage everyone to participate in these neighborhood board elections," Mayor Mufi Hannemann said in a statement. "This is grassroots democracy in its purest form."
The last day to request a voter number is April 5, and online voting closes April 16.
There are 35 neighborhood boards on the Island. Election results will be announced May 1.
WAIKIKI
NO ARRESTS YET IN SURFING KIOSK FIRE
Police had made no arrests by last night in connection to a first-degree criminal property damage investigation into a Sunday fire that damaged a kiosk at Waikiki Beach.
The fire was reported at 10:13 p.m. The damaged kiosk was used to store surfing equipment, police said.
GET MORE DETAILS ON TAX SURCHARGE
A half-hour informational briefing on O'ahu's new tax surcharge will air tomorrow and twice next month on 'Olelo, channel 54.
The program was prepared by the state Department of Taxation and will provide basic information on the surcharge, such as who and what transactions are subject to it.
The show also will include information on common mistakes that businesses are making when completing their 2007 general excise tax forms.
The program will air:
Tomorrow: 8 a.m.
April 4: 6:30 p.m.
April 11: 8:30 a.m.
For more information, contact Sandra Yahiro, deputy director, Department of Taxation, at 587-1540.
KAUA'I
WOMAN RUN OVER IN OWN DRIVEWAY
PUHI — An 80-year-old Puhi woman died Sunday after being run over in her Ono Street driveway by a neighbor.
Police said Alepia Motilla was killed at about 8:30 a.m. when she was hit by a car driven by a 60-year-old neighbor.
The man apparently was reversing his car into the victim's driveway when he mistakenly stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake pedal and ran into Motilla, a parked truck and a corner of the woman's house, police said.
Motilla was initially treated at Wilcox Hospital before being transferred to The Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, where she died at about 4 p.m.
Motilla's death is not being counted as a traffic fatality because the accident occurred on private property, said Kaua'i Traffic Safety investigator Officer James Miller.
