Girl encounters intruder in Kalihi home
Police are looking for a man in his 20s who allegedly broke into a Kalihi home early Tuesday morning, surprising a girl who lives there.
The daughter of a 54-year-old man awakened around 12:45 a.m. Tuesday and was walking to the bathroom when she encountered a strange man with a backpack in one of the rooms, police said. The man signaled her to be quiet as he left the room and walked past her out the front door.
Police have opened a first-degree burglary case.
Kahi Mohala escapee allegedly hits officer
A 28-year-old McCully woman who escaped from Kahi Mohala Behavioral Healthcare was in custody after allegedly assaulting a police officer at a Kaimuki park early Tuesday morning.
Police responded to reports of an argument at Kaimuki District Park at 12:20 a.m. Police said the woman was irate and allegedly refused to leave the park on Waialae Avenue. While being arrested on suspicion of violating park closure rules and regulations, she allegedly hit the officer.
The suspect, who has a long list of misdemeanor convictions, had been released from Oahu Community Correctional Center in March.
Police arrested the woman on suspicion of first-degree assault on a police officer and first-degree escape.
Farm volunteers accused of livestock theft
HONOKAA, HAWAII » Two men have been charged with livestock theft after a calf was found shot and skinned on a Hawaii island organic farm.
The farm manager said the men did not mean to commit a crime. They were just trying to put an injured calf "out of its misery" and were trying not to be wasteful by skinning it for meat, he said.
"These kids made a bad decision instead of going to get the owner, but they didn’t know the owner," said Zack Gibson, manager of Puuala Farm & Ranch near Honokaa, told the Hawaii Tribune-Herald. "And the calf’s in the gulch. So they made a decision to shoot it."
Jason James Williams, 25, and Lonnie James Knutson, 22, were arrested Sunday. They were charged with livestock theft, a felony, and bail was set at $2,000 each, police said.
The two men are volunteers from Washington state who are learning about organic farming, Gibson said.
The rancher, Peter De Luz, couldn’t be reached for comment.