A Kane'ohe man was arrested yesterday for misdemeanor third-degree negligent homicide in connection with the 2005 death of an 89-year-old pedestrian.

Joseph M.K. Silva, 28, was booked at 1 p.m. yesterday and released 30 minutes later. The case against Silva likely has been resolved in court but details were not immediately available.

Silva was driving a northbound 1999 Ford pickup truck on Kamehameha Highway in Kane'ohe on Dec. 22, 2005, which struck and killed William Kobashigawa.

Kobashigawa was in a crosswalk on Kamehameha Highway near Star Market when he was struck at 5:45 a.m., police said.

Kobashigawa served as an Army medic with the famed 100th Battalion, 442nd Regimental Combat Team during World War II. He received a Purple Heart and Bronze Star.

Negligent homicide cases in Honolulu usually take a year to 18 months to go to court.

Kobashigawa was one of 28 pedestrians killed on O'ahu in 2005.

COAST GUARD PLANE DELIVERS AID TO SHIP

A Coast Guard rescue plane from Air Station Barbers Point delivered emergency medical supplies to a cruise ship 1,000 miles north of O'ahu yesterday morning.

The crew of the "Radiance of the Seas" contacted the Coast Guard at 9 p.m. Tuesday and requested assistance for a 62-year-old man who was bleeding and vomiting, a Coast Guard news release said.

The Coast Guard C-130 Hercules plane reached the ship at 7 a.m. yesterday with the supplies. The man was reported in stable condition and remained in the care of the ship's doctor, the release said.

LAND MINE FOUND IN PARK DESTROYED

KAPA'A, Kaua'i — An M-6 land mine that was found Tuesday at Lihi Park was destroyed yesterday by an Army explosive ordnance disposal unit, county officials said in a news release.

The unit buried the land mine in sand at the north end of Moana Kai Beach and detonated it by remote control.

It is unknown how long the land mine had been in the ground at the park.

The land mine was discovered Tuesday by a crew from Akahi Services Inc. doing trench work in the area for the Kapa'a to Anahola portion of a bicycle and pedestrian path, officials said.

FEMALE INMATE AN APPARENT SUICIDE

A 31-year-old prisoner at the Women's Community Correctional Center in Kailua died Oct. 17 in an apparent suicide, corrections officials said.

A corrections officer found Philomina Sumera hanging in a single cell at 2:45 p.m. in the mental health unit of Olomana Cottage at the prison, said prison spokeswoman Louise Kim McCoy. Prison medical staff tried unsuccessfully to revive Sumera, McCoy said.

The death is being investigated by Honolulu police and prison Internal Affairs investigators, which McCoy said is standard procedure. Prison officials are awaiting the results of an autopsy.

Sumera had been convicted of second-degree assault, was paroled, and was then returned to prison in August for violating parole, McCoy said.

McCoy said Sumera was not on suicide watch, and did not show any sign of being despondent.

She had been placed in the mental health unit of the prison based on an assessment during her previous incarceration, McCoy said.

The Department of Public Safety notified Sumera's family of the death, but did not make a public announcement of the death in keeping with department policy, McCoy said.

Information about Sumera's death emerged from the prison through inmate reports.