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Boyfriend allegedly uses car to attack man
Police arrested a 23-year-old Salt Lake man on suspicion of second-degree attempted murder Thursday for allegedly driving toward his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend, who was sitting in a golf cart at a Salt Lake golf course.
The alleged attack took place at 11:10 a.m. at the Honolulu Country Club.
Police said the suspect allegedly accelerated a vehicle toward the golf cart with the 24-year-old man seated in it and struck the cart. The golf cart rider reportedly jumped to safety just before the vehicle struck the cart.
Police said no one was injured.
The victim is also the father of the suspect’s girlfriend’s two children.
The man was also arrested on suspicion of second-degree criminal property damage at 12:45 p.m.
Marine, Navy copters join search for SEAL
The Coast Guard said that it, the Navy and the Marine Corps continued to search for a missing Navy SEAL off Kaena Point on Friday.
Friday’s search was scheduled to include the Coast Guard cutters Walnut and Kiska as well as a 45-foot response boat, a 47-foot motor lifeboat, an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter and an HC-130 Hercules airplane from Air Station Barbers Point.
Crews aboard the Military Sealift Command’s submarine and special warfare support vessel C-Commando were also involved, as well as Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters, a Navy P-3C Orion airplane and a Navy SH-60B Seahawk helicopter, the Coast Guard said.
Crews were searching an area from Kaena Point stretching 30 miles north and 74 miles west. The total search area Friday was expected to be about 690 square miles.
The total area searched since Tuesday, when the Coast Guard was notified of the missing man, is 9,896 square miles, more than twice the square mileage of Hawaii island.
Suspect is arrested in Pauoa robbery
Police arrested Thursday a 33-year-old man in the October robbery of workers and patrons of a Pauoa business.
He was arrested on suspicion of first-degree robbery.
Police said the man entered the business and demanded money and property from the workers and patrons, while another suspect wielded a dangerous instrument. The suspects fled after taking money and property.
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Boy dies after falling in water
An 18-month-old Kailua-Kona boy apparently drowned Friday morning in a large plastic tank filled with water.
Hawaii County police said the toddler’s 30-year-old mother reported at 8:58 a.m. that she had been watching her son playing in a vacant lot, turned away for a few seconds, and her son was gone.
She told police that after searching for 10 to 15 minutes, she found him floating face-down in the tank.
Officers met the woman on Lamaokeola Street in Kailua-Kona.
Police said the large plastic tank was partially covered when the boy fell in, but would not describe it in detail.
The woman performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on her son until fire personnel arrived.
They took him to Kona Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:37 a.m.
An autopsy has been scheduled to determine the cause of death.
2 men charged in bank robbery
Authorities on Maui have charged two men with robbing the Pukalani branch of First Hawaiian Bank on Tuesday afternoon.
Richard L.K. Vance, 25, who gave no local address, and Michael Santino Sobel, 28, a self-employed fruit picker from Pukalani, were each charged Thursday with first-degree robbery, terroristic threatening and kidnapping.
Bail for each was set at $105,000.
Police said Vance robbed the bank at 3:10 p.m. Tuesday and got away on a motorcycle driven by Sobel. Police arrested Vance at the Westin Maui Resort and Sobel at his home. Money from the bank robbery was recovered at both places, police said.
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