POLICE BEAT
Girl, 17, sexually assaulted at school
Advertiser Staff
Police are investigating a reported sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl at a Honolulu district school Friday morning. The school was not identified.
Police said a 30-year-old man sexually assaulted the girl at the school at 10:30 a.m. Friday. The victim reported the incident to police and was taken to the Sex Abuse Treatment Center for examination.
The suspect fled before officers arrived, police said.
MAN, 22, ARRESTED FOR ALLEGED ATTACK
Police last night arrested a 22-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder after he allegedly attacked his mother at her Waimanalo home.
Police said at about 6 p.m. the man attacked his mother and started choking her, but she broke free and ran into her room. He fled the house and was arrested down the street about 30 minutes later, police said.
The woman sustained some injuries but was not hospitalized, police said.
RIVETS DISRUPT HAWAIIAN FLIGHT
A Hawaiian Airlines flight headed from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport to Maui turned around and returned to the airport Friday after experiencing unusual vibrations and a loose wing panel, according to a Seattle television station.
Repair crews later found that nine rivets had popped off a nonstructural panel that gives access to the inside of the wing, according to KOMO-TV. Others were found to be loose.
An airline spokesman told the station there was no danger to the plane, a Boeing 767, nor threat to the passengers. But the plane returned as a precautionary measure, due to the length of the flight over the ocean.
Technicians still have not determined how it happened, but the airline described the problem as "highly unusual." Hawaiian Flight 29 took off from Sea-Tac at 10:35 a.m. Friday. The plane turned around less than an hour into the flight, landing safely back at Sea-Tac at 12:07 p.m., the station reported.
