Suspect arrested in bar manager’s beating
Police arrested a Kalihi man Tuesday for allegedly knocking out a woman at a Kapiolani Boulevard bar in July.
In August, police issued a CrimeStoppers alert seeking the public’s help in finding a man wanted for beating the manager of Ellie’s Club until she was unconscious.
Police said the suspect, 44, got into an argument with an employee of the club just after midnight on July 8. The manager, 45, intervened and was struck numerous times. She was taken to a hospital with numerous facial fractures.
Based on several tips to CrimeStoppers, police arrested the man on suspicion of second-degree assault.
Threat with unregistered gun brings arrest
A 42-year-old Waianae man who allegedly threatened a vacuum cleaner salesman with a gun was arrested Tuesday.
The salesman, 18, was showing his product to a woman at a residence on Leipupu Place at about 12:45 p.m. when the woman’s boyfriend told him to leave. As the man packed up his equipment, the older man brandished a pistol and threatened to shoot him, police said.
The man was arrested on suspicion of first-degree terroristic threatening and possessing an unregistered firearm, and was released pending investigation.
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Thefts generate 4 Kauai arrests
Four men were arrested in connection with multiple burglaries and car thefts on Kauai over the past several months, police said in a news release Wednesday.
The men, ages ranging from 18 to 30, were allegedly involved in a burglary ring that targeted homes from Kapaa to Omao. Three of the four men were arrested at different times in the past two weeks.
The fourth suspect turned himself in Saturday. Police have recovered personal items and vehicles.
Charges are pending.
Police Chief Darryl Perry said people should lock the doors to their cars, homes and hotel rooms.
Plea switched in Maui death
WAILUKU >> A California man who pleaded no contest to manslaughter in the death of his girlfriend during a Maui vacation now says he’s willing to risk life in prison to change his plea.
Gerald Galaway testified Tuesday that he was in a “trance” and felt pressured when he accepted a plea agreement to the reduced manslaughter charge in the death of Celestial Cassman.
The Santa Cruz couple was vacationing last year when the attorney was killed. Galaway was originally charged with second-degree murder.
Galaway says he was under medication and was concerned about a financial burden of a trial on his family when he accepted the deal to plead to the lesser charge of manslaughter. He first was charged with second-degree murder, which carries a sentence of life in prison. Manslaughter has a maximum sentence of 20 years.
The Maui News said the judge did not rule on Galaway’s motion to change his plea and continued the hearing to next week.
