POLICE BEAT
First summer fire smokes Waialua
Advertiser Staff
Six engine companies battled a brushfire yesterday near Wai-alua's sugar mill complex.
The fire near Kealohanui Street was reported at 3:17 p.m. and was not threatening any homes, said Fire Department spokesman Capt. Kenison Tejada.
Tejada noted it was the first significant brush fire of the summer.
O'AHU TRAFFIC DEATH TOLL RISES
The number of traffic fatalities on O'ahu this year climbed Wednesday.
A 27-year-old man died Wednesday night after the moped he was riding was rear-ended by a car about 11:20 p.m. on Kamehameha Highway, near the entrance to the Helemano military housing area in Central O'ahu.
It was the 46th traffic fatality on O'ahu this year, compared with 38 at this time last year.
Police said the moped and a 2003 Volkswagen sedan were traveling toward Wahiawa. The car had passed several other cars before it hit the moped from behind.
The moped rider, who was not wearing a helmet, was thrown into the air and landed on the pavement, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said the driver of the Volkswagen stopped and got out of his car, then took off running along Kamehameha Highway toward Hale'iwa.
Police found the driver, a 27-year-old Windward O'ahu resident, and arrested him on suspicion of fleeing the scene of an accident and negligent homicide.
SEX OFFENDER BACK IN COURT
Police yesterday charged 43-year-old Zacarias R.L. Kapoi with failure to comply with requirements of his sex offender registration and multiple sex assault offenses stemming from an alleged attack May 25 in 'Ewa Beach.
An appearance is scheduled today for Kapoi at District Court. He was being held in lieu of $100,000 bail. Kapoi allegedly did not update a change of address on his sex offender registration, a Class C felony.
HALAWA MAN ACCUSED OF KIDNAPPING
A 34-year-old Halawa man has been charged in a case in which a Mililani woman told police she was held against her will for 24 hours and beaten in April.
Jobey Lawrence Nakamoto was charged with felony kidnapping, first- and second-degree terroristic threatening and third-degree assault. He was initially arrested Tuesday in Halawa on two outstanding traffic warrants. The additional charges were added while he was in custody.
According to a police report filed at District Court, the woman told police that Nakamoto allegedly threatened to kill her and repeatedly struck her knees, leg and head. The woman, who had a brief relationship with Nakamoto, was released by Nakamoto on April 10.
TRIO ROUGHED UP, ROBBED IN MILILANI
Police arrested a 17-year-old boy in Mililani on Wednesday night after he allegedly robbed three other males, ages 19, 17 and 14.
The victims told police they were walking down a street in Mililani about 8:30 p.m. when a vehicle filled with other young men stopped near them.
One of the passengers jumped out, head-butted one of the three friends and took his money, police were told.
The assailant then head-butted a second victim and took his money, and shoved the third male and took his money as well, police were told.
Police were called, went to the area and located a suspect a short time later at a nearby park.
The three teens identified the suspect, and he was arrested on suspicion of three counts of second-degree robbery.
CAR DEAL GOES BAD IN KANE'OHE
A 26-year-old man was arrested about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in Kane'ohe after he allegedly sold a used car to a 47-year-old woman, then tried to take the car back after he pocketed the cash.
Police said the woman reported handing over $250 for the car, at which point the seller tried to take the car keys from her.
A struggle ensued and witnesses separated the two.
WOMAN SOUGHT IN ALLEGED HIT, RUN
Police were looking for a 45-year-old woman who allegedly used a vehicle to hit her former boyfriend in Wahiawa on Wednesday.
Police said the woman struck the couple's 11-year-old son as well during the incident, but that neither the man, 54, nor the boy was seriously injured in the 4:15 p.m. incident.
Investigators said the two adults had been arguing when the woman jumped into the car and drove at the man, hitting him and the boy. She drove off.
