HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Power restored to school, tunnel
Advertiser Staff
Hawaiian Electric Co. restored power Tuesday night to Le Jardin Academy in Kailua and in the Wilson Tunnel.
There were no power outages on O'ahu as of 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, HECO spokeswoman Lynne Unemori said.
Le Jardin Academy had been without power since 5:30 a.m. Tuesday when sagging wires leaned on a pole. Crews hiked in and corrected the situation. Power to the school was restored at 8:30 p.m., said Unemori.
Earlier Tuesday, principal Adrian Allen said the school would decide at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday whether school would be reopened. A recording on the school phone advised parents to listen to KSSK radio Wednesday morning.
At the Wilson Tunnel, crews fixed a circuit feed problem caused by a broken crossarm on a pole and restored power at 7:30 p.m. The tunnel's lights, which had been out since midday Monday, came on shortly after.
PEARL HARBOR
3 MILLION VISITORS TO MIGHTY MO
The Battleship Missouri Memorial Tuesday morning welcomed its 3 millionth visitor — a man from California vacationing in Hawai'i with his wife.
"It is such a pleasure to be here and experience a piece of history," Jason Kadluboski, of Hollister, Calif., said in a news release.
Kadluboski was identified as the 3 millionth visitor as he and his wife, Sandee, were making their first visit to the Mighty Mo.
Presenting several gifts on behalf of the board of directors, staff, volunteers and supporters of the Missouri were retired Capt. Don Hess, president and chief operating officer of the USS Missouri Memorial Association, and Paul Dyson, the association's vice president of marketing and sales.
MAKAKILO
ARREST LEADS TO FIREARM CHARGE
A 45-year-old Wai'anae man arrested early Sunday for allegedly threatening a family with a gun was charged Tuesday on a federal warrant for firearm offenses and will be turned over by police Wednesday to agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Parris Kahekili Kawaauhau's 18 convictions dating to 1980 include a firearm offense in 1986.
Kawaauhau allegedly went to a Makakilo home, threatened a man, 35, and his family before being disarmed in a struggle. He was captured by police shortly after fleeing the scene.
BIG ISLAND
HARBOR SNAKE WASN'T POISONOUS
A snake found at Hilo Harbor on Friday has been identified as a checkered keelback snake, also known as an Asiatic water snake (Xenochrophis piscator), officials said in a news release.
The nonvenomous snake is commonly found in Asia and the East Indies, but not common in the pet trade in the United States. It was not known how the snake arrived in Hawai'i.
On Friday, a construction worker at Hilo Harbor's Pier 2 saw the 2-foot-long snake under the pier and was able to kill it. The incident happened about 9:30 a.m.
MAN SOUGHT IN KONA STABBING
Kona police are asking for help in finding a man wanted in connection with a stabbing last weekend at the Honokohau Small Boat Harbor.
A 47-year-old Kailua, Kona, man was stabbed in the arm and chest shortly before 11:17 a.m. Sunday. The injured man told police he had been in an argument the night before with the man who stabbed him.
The injured man was treated at Kona Community Hospital and released.
HAU'ULA
PAIR ARRESTED OVER DRUGS, GUNS
Police raided a Honomu Street residence Tuesday at 7:25 a.m. and arrested a woman, 50, and man, 48, for multiple drug and firearm offenses.
The woman was booked for first-degree promotion of a dangerous drug, four counts of third-degree promotion of a dangerous drug, second-degree promotion of a harmful drug, third-degree promotion of a detrimental drug, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
The man was booked for promotion of dangerous and detrimental drugs, as well as a firearm offense.
