HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Extra bus service for Don Ho event
Advertiser Staff
TheBus will provide additional service tomorrow to Waikiki from 'A'ala Park and from Ala Moana Center, beginning at 3 p.m., to accommodate the crowd expected to attend the memorial celebration for entertainer Don Ho at Queen's Surf Beach.
Extra buses will be operated on both routes after the tribute, starting from Monsarrat Avenue near the Waikiki Shell.
Service will be to:
For more information, call 848-5555 or go to www.thebus.org.
POLICE ASK HELP IN IDENTIFYING MAN
Police are seeking to learn the identity of a man who was found April 21 with critical head injuries at Ala Moana Beach Park. The man was taken to a hospital with no identification.
The man is in his 50s and is possibly known as "Harold," police said.
Anyone with information is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300 or *CRIME on a cell phone.
MAN SEIZED AFTER SHOOTING IN KULA
WAILUKU, Maui — A 53-year-old man was arrested yesterday after a shooting in Kula that injured a 43-year-old man.
Police said the victim was shot outside the suspect's home around 10:40 p.m. Wednesday about 1.5 miles above Harold Rice Park. The injured man was shot once in the leg and once in the arm.
The suspect engaged police in a standoff until surrendering at 6:15 a.m., police said. A 9mm handgun was seized. About 30 officers were involved in the incident.
Several homes were evacuated during the standoff, and Kula Highway was closed from 11:15 p.m. Wednesday and reopened at 7:45 a.m. yesterday.
EX-PRISON GUARD MUST SERVE TERM
A former federal prison guard was sentenced to two years and nine months in federal prison yesterday for smuggling drugs into the Federal Detention Center in 2005.
Akoni Sandoval Kapihe, who resigned after his arrest, pleaded guilty last year to the federal charge of getting $50 for providing an inmate with protein supplement containers that included methamphetamine and marijuana. Kapihe admitted he suspected the container had drugs but continued to smuggle containers into the prison three other times, getting a total of $200.
U.S. District Judge Helen Gillmor said Kapihe put other guards and inmates at risk by his actions.
She ordered him to start serving the prison term on June 14.