Speeding driver hits pole and dies
The driver of a pickup truck died Sunday morning in Hana after hitting a telephone pole at a high rate of speed, paramedics officials said.
Maui County paramedics were dispatched at 5:42 a.m. to mile post 47 on Hana Highway and found the male driver ejected from the truck.
The driver, identified as John Krause, 19, was pronounced dead at the scene.
His male passenger, 20, was taken to Hana Airport and flown to Maui Memorial Medical Center with head and leg injuries, officials said. He was treated and released.
Brush fire threatens residential area
Firefighters worked Sunday to prevent a brush fire in Maili from closing in on a nearby residential area around Oheohe Street and Kaukama Road, Honolulu Fire Department officials said.
Officials said they were unsure of the precise size of the fire but that it covered a wide area.
The call came in at 2:28 p.m., and six engines and a helicopter responded, a department spokesman said.
Service station robbery yields arrest
Hawaii island police arrested a 24-year-old Hilo man Friday in connection with an early-morning armed robbery of a service station on Kekuanaoa Street.
Police arrested the man at his home on suspicion of robbery, terroristic threatening, shoplifting and theft.
According to police, at 12:30 a.m. the suspect brandished a gun and demanded money from a service station attendant, then fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of money. The attendant was not injured.
Police took the suspect into custody about 12 hours later.
Waianae man charged with burglary
Police captured a 48-year-old man inside a home that he was allegedly burglarizing Wednesday in Waianae.
Solomon J. Chock Jr. of Puhawai Road was charged Thursday with first-degree burglary. His bail was set at $20,000.
Police said officers responded to a possible burglary in progress at about 4 a.m. Thursday, found a point of entry and located the burglar inside.
Chock was arrested at 4:15 a.m. on Waianae Valley Road.
