NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
3-day operation on Kauai nets 22 fugitives
U.S. Marshals Hawaii Fugitive Task Force officers arrested 22 fugitives, including a man with a rifle, during a three-day operation on Kauai that ended Thursday afternoon.
The task force targeted fugitives wanted for drug possession, robbery, sex assault and other crimes, the Marshals Service said. Officers cleared 34 state warrants.
Thursday morning, task force officers arrested Marco Paulo Rodrigues, 37, in Kapaia Valley, located on Grove Farm, for multiple outstanding warrants, according to a Marshals Service news release. Rodrigues was charged with possession of a prohibited firearm after task force officers recovered ammunition and a .22-caliber rifle outside his tent.
Time capsule is uncovered at post office
A time capsule dating to 1959 has been found at the old Wailuku Post Office and Federal Building.
KITV-TV said demolition crews discovered the time capsule Tuesday morning while removing the building’s cornerstone. Workers at the time were trying to preserve the cornerstone, which says "United States of America, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President, 1959."
The time capsule was in a rectangular metal box. Inside was a letter from the general contractor who built the building, a book of blueprints of the building itself and a copy of the Maui News with the story of the new post office building on the front page, dated Sept. 19, 1959.
Workers began tearing down the building Jan. 7 as part of the county’s Campus Master Plan for Wailuku.
