Surfboard knocks out woman
Lifeguards rescued a 23-year-old woman Friday after she was hit in the head by someone else’s surfboard while surfing off Waikiki.
A lifeguard saw the incident while patrolling the water on a surfboard and went to the woman at about 4:20 p.m., a lifeguard dispatcher said. The woman was face down and unconscious in the water. She regained consciousness after the lifeguard pulled her onto his board. The lifeguard brought her to the beach fronting the Moana Surfrider hotel, where lifeguards gave her oxygen and stabilized her.
Paramedics took the woman to the hospital in serious condition, an Emergency Medical Services supervisor said.
3 teens arrested in robberies
Three teenage boys are facing charges following two separate Kalihi incidents this week in which the suspects allegedly robbed other juveniles.
In one case two boys — ages 13 and 14 — allegedly took money from a 12-year-old boy on Tuesday. On the following day the same two suspects stopped another 12-year-old boy and searched his pockets but found no money, police said. Officers arrested the suspects Thursday afternoon on suspicion of second-degree robbery.
In an unrelated robbery case, three boys stopped an 11-year-old boy, and one suspect — a 13-year-old boy — allegedly took money from the 11-year-old. Officers arrested the 13-year-old Thursday on suspicion of second-degree robbery.
Wrong-way car was stolen
A vehicle stopped by police going the wrong way on a Waikiki street late Thursday turned out to be stolen.
Police said a police officer stopped a car heading in the wrong direction fronting 450 Lewers St. at 9:19 p.m. Thursday.
A check of the vehicle found that it was stolen, police said.
Police arrested a man, 37, who listed an address at nearby Kaiolu Street as his home. He is being held pending a charge of unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle.
Man held in theft at bus stop
A 25-year-old Kaneohe man was arrested after allegedly stealing property from a woman he’d just met at a Kapahulu bus stop early Friday morning.
The woman, 19, reported that she was at the bus stop with the suspect, whom she had met earlier, when he took her property and fled shortly after midnight.
The man, who lists the Hina Mauka substance abuse facility as his home address, was located a few hours later by police on Date Street, where he was identified and arrested.
The suspect is being held pending a charge of second-degree theft and violating probation.
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Maui educator is arrested in sex assaults
A former substitute teacher at Iao School in Wailuku was arrested Friday in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a student from 2008 to 2010.
Jim Alan Balicanta, 40, was arrested by U.S. Marshals at 7:50 a.m. Friday after a Maui Circuit Court judge issued a warrant for his arrest April 20. Balicanta had been indicted for 52 counts of sexual assault, including 27 first-degree counts.
The U.S. Marshals Service and Maui police said the assaults began when Balicanta was a band teacher and the girl was in the eighth grade at the intermediate school. The girl, now a Maui high school student, did not report the incidents until January.
Balicanta pleaded not guilty during his initial court appearance Friday and was being held at Maui County Correctional Center in lieu of $750,000 bail. His bail hearing is set for Wednesday.
A Department of Education spokeswoman said Balicanta worked as a substitute teacher for the department until January. He last worked at Iao School.
