Search continues for missing serviceman
The Coast Guard and the Honolulu Fire Department continued the search for a missing 36-year-old Coast Guardsman on Thursday, covering 1,233 square miles, but found nothing.
Fire officials will confer this morning with the Coast Guard to determine whether to continue the search, said fire Capt. Terry Seelig.
Petty Officer 1st Class Russell Matthews, an aviation survival technician from Barbers Point Air Station, was last seen at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in Pupukea. Police found his car Wednesday at a Kaena Point parking lot. He was reportedly distraught, police said.
A Coast Guard helicopter, plane and cutter continued searching Thursday, the Coast Guard said.
HFD’s helicopter crew as well as ground teams searched Thursday from Yokohama Bay to Kaena Point, along the coastline and offshore waters.
They also scoured the area beyond the shoreline in Mokuleia to the cliffs and ravines.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 911 or CrimeStoppers at 955-8300, or the Coast Guard at 842-2600.
Suspect allegedly threatens school official
A 49-year-old Waianae man was arrested Wednesday morning after he allegedly threatened an official at a Farrington Highway charter school who told him to move his car because it was blocking traffic at the elementary school’s drop-off lane.
Police said the suspect had dropped off a child at the school at 7:20 a.m. when he was told to park on the side of the road. According to police, the suspect got mad, allegedly got out his car and challenged the school official to a fight.
Police officers arrested the man on suspicion of first-degree terroristic threatening.
Highway 11 traffic accident kills 1 person
Hawaii County police reopened Highway 11 Thursday night about four hours after a traffic fatality at the 20-mile marker at the Glenwood Road intersection.
A fire official said one person died in the traffic accident, but details were not available at press time. The crash was reported at about 5 p.m.
