The driver involved in a fatal 2006 car crash at Kalaeloa has been granted a one-year deferred sentence.

Daniel A. Rebujio, 21, of Kapolei was sentenced Tuesday by Circuit Judge Reynaldo D. Graulty. In addition to the deferred sentence, Graulty suspended Rebujio's driver's license for a year, ordered him to perform 100 hours of community service and fined him $500.

Chief deputy prosecuting attorney Laura Maeshiro said the sentencing was part of an agreement reached Sept. 8 in which Rebujio entered a no-contest plea to misdemeanor third-degree negligent homicide.

Rebujio was driving a car that went off the end of Franklin Roosevelt Avenue at Kalaeloa on July 24, 2006. The car went airborne and plowed into the embankment of a canal. Passengers Leslie Kim, 16, and Tanya House, 18, were killed.

The state has since placed concrete barriers at the location, which is at the end of a straightaway with no street lights.

CREWS BATTLE FIRE NEAR SCHOFIELD

About 50 firefighters worked about two hours yesterday to contain a hillside wildfire that burned 55 acres on the Wai'anae side of Kunia Road, about a quarter mile north of Hawaii Country Club.

Fire Department Capt. Terry Seelig said the fire posed no serious threat to property but did come close to a radio station transmitting tower, possibly damaging its support guide wires.

The fire was reported at 2:15 p.m. and declared contained at 4 p.m.

MAN, 27, ACCUSED OF STABBING OFFICER

A Honolulu police officer was stabbed in the lower torso yesterday while trying to serve a misdemeanor warrant in Waikiki. The 36-year-old officer was treated at a hospital and released.

Police arrested Kawika K. Ah Quinn, 27, at 2:13 a.m. fronting 2745 Kalakaua Ave. for investigation of first-degree attempted murder and on a $20,000 warrant. Ah Quinn was being held last night at the police cellblock.