Man arrested, boy badly injured in crash
Honolulu police arrested a driver Thursday after a one-car crash near the entrance to Yokohama Bay that sent a 17-year-old Waianae boy to the hospital in critical condition.
The victim was a passenger in a 1993 Acura driven by a 19-year-old Waianae man toward Kaena Point State Park on Farrington Highway east of the road to the Satellite Tracking Station at 2:45 a.m.
The driver lost control of the Acura, hit a guardrail and spun out, coming to rest near the mountainside, police said. His 17-year-old passenger was ejected from the vehicle and suffered head injuries. Paramedics took him to the Queen’s Medical Center in critical condition.
Police said speed and alcohol appear to be factors in a crash.
Police closed Farrington Highway in both directions near Hercules Rock while traffic investigators examined the scene.
A passenger, 18, in the back seat of the vehicle was treated at the scene and released, said Lt. Robert Towne of the Honolulu Police Department’s Traffic Division.
Police arrested the 19-year-old driver of the vehicle, a Lualualei Homestead Road resident, on suspicion of negligent injury.
Portlock robbery suspect charged
Prosecutors have charged one of two suspects in a home robbery in Portlock earlier this month.
Wednesday afternoon, officers arrested a 20-year-old man in Kalihi Valley. Shawn I. Shelton Jr., 20, was charged Thursday afternoon with kidnapping, two counts of first-degree burglary, resisting an order to stop, resisting arrest and four probation violations. He remained at the main police station in lieu of $75,000 bail.
Two men surprised 13-year-old Ryan Johnson, who was sleeping in his Poipu Drive home at 10 a.m. Aug. 7. He shares the home with his father, Robert, and 17-year-old sister, A.J.
The suspects used a crowbar to pry loose a safe bolted to the wall that contained jewelry and other items belonging to Robert Johnson’s late wife, Ulrike "Bieni" Kohler Johnson. Among the items taken was the 1.2-carat solitary diamond ring with a gold band he had given his wife on their wedding day, Johnson said.
Court records show the suspect has seven felony convictions, including burglary, robbery, drug violations and identification theft, and two misdemeanor convictions. He was on probation for credit card theft, identification theft and unauthorized possession of personal information.
Police are still looking for the second suspect.
The boy was uninjured.
Phony bomb brings 16-year-old’s arrest
A 16-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday in connection with a fake bomb found in his mother’s house in Wailuku, forcing police to evacuate part of the neighborhood and spurring an Army bomb unit from Oahu to disable the device.
Police said the item had no other purpose than to look like a bomb.
The woman, 40, called police after finding a possible explosive device in her son’s bedroom closet at about 12:50 p.m. Wednesday, police said. The woman was packing clothes for the boy, who lives in foster care, when she found a hard, black-and-silver box about the size of a CD carrying case and labeled "Boom Box."
She opened the box and found electronics, wiring and other objects that she believed to be a homemade bomb.
During the investigation, officers found the woman’s son at a residence in Wailuku at about 4:40 p.m. and arrested him for investigation of first-degree terroristic threatening, police said. He was later released to his foster family, pending an investigation.
The Army’s 74th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Company on Oahu arrived at about 7:45 p.m. Wednesday and determined the device to be a "hoax IED," or improvised explosive device, containing two D batteries with wiring and electronics but no explosive material, police said. It was recovered as evidence.
Residents were allowed to return home at about 8:50 p.m., about seven hours after they were evacuated.
