25 Honolulu DUI suspects arrested in 7 hours
Advertiser Staff
Honolulu police arrested 25 people suspected of driving under the influence of an intoxicant in a seven-hour period overnight, including three repeat offenders, one of whom had his license suspended due to a DUI conviction and allegedly refused an order to stop.
The arrests occurred between 9:45 p.m. yesterday and 4:50 a.m. today at various locations. Bail for the three repeat offenders — Roly Agmata Gano, 48; Edward Jennings MacNaughton, 38, and Freirick Susaia, 40 — is $1,000 each while bail for the others arrested is $500 apiece.
Gano and Susaia were still at the main police station cellblock tonight and will be sent to District Court Tuesday if they are unable to post bail.
Gano was arrested at his Lipoa Place residence in 'Aiea at 12:10 a.m. today on suspicion of operating a vehicle under the influence of an intoxicant, resisting an order to stop, driving with a suspended license, and having an open container of liquor in his vehicle. With the other offenses, his bail totals $2,100.
Gano has seven prior convictions, including four for driving under the influence (2006, 2004, 1997 and 1991) and two firearm offenses (1983 and 1982), according to Hawai'i Criminal Justice Data Center records.
MacNaughton, convicted in 1990 of DUI, was one of five people arrested at different times overnight on Monsarrat Avenue in Waikiki while Susaia was arrested on Vandenberg Boulevard.
The stepped-up enforcement campaign is part of a national safe driving initiative to cut down traffic deaths from the Memorial Day weekend to Labor Day, which has been described as the "101 deadliest days of summer." Officials say more traffic deaths occur during this period than at any other time during the year.
In Hawai'i, nearly 30 percent of total traffic fatalities the past two years — 35 of 131 in 2007 and 51 of 157 in 2006 — happened during the 101-day period.
A 30-year-old man killed early yesterday on North Shore is O'ahu's 17th fatality of 2008. The Honolulu Medical Examiner's office today declined to release a name until the man's identity is confirmed.
As of today, 44 people have died in traffic accidents this year in Hawai'i as compared to 56 by this date in 2007.
The updated 2008 island-by-island breakdown as compiled by The Advertiser:
