Man arrested in fatal stabbing released
A 71-year-old Waipahu man arrested in connection with the stabbing death of a 42-year-old man Sunday was released from custody Friday, pending further investigation, police said.
Police said the victim, Marlo G. Basuel, got into an argument with two men at a party. One man stabbed Basuel several times and fled. Paramedics took Basuel from a Kahuanani Street home at 9:48 p.m. Sunday to a hospital in "extremely critical condition." He died at the hospital three hours later.
The 71-year-old man was arrested Wednesday afternoon on suspicion of second-degree murder. He was found at his Kahualoa Place home, several blocks north of the Waipahu crime scene. No one else has been arrested.
Moped rider killed in accident identified
The city Medical Examiner’s Office has identified the 66-year-old man who died Thursday after the moped he was driving struck a pickup truck in Aiea as Richard Sanford.
An autopsy will done on Sanford, who lived in Aiea.
Police said the man was driving east on Moanalua Road near Ualo Street when his moped crossed the centerline and struck the truck at about 2:45 p.m. He was taken in critical condition to Queen’s Medical Center, where he later died, police said.
The accident marks Oahu’s fourth traffic-related death this year compared with five for the same period last year.
Check forger gets prison time
Kauai Circuit Judge Kathleen N.A. Watanabe on Wednesday sentenced a 28-year-old Kapaa man to five years’ imprisonment for forging $7,000 worth of his father’s checks in May.
Jonathan Niehaus had pleaded no contest to second-degree forgery and second-degree theft. He was also ordered to make full restitution to First Hawaiian Bank.
Police said Niehaus stole three of his father’s checks and wrote them to himself, for a total of $7,000, to travel and buy prescription drugs.
Niehaus has prior convictions relating to drug promotion, assault and terroristic threatening, dating back to 2008, according to a Kauai County news release.
Man is accused of theft, forgery
Hawaii County police have charged 51-year-old Benjamin Fonseca of Hilo with one count of second-degree theft and 28 counts of second-degree forgery.
His bail was set at $58,000.
He is being held at the Hilo police cellblock pending his initial court appearance Tuesday.
After police issued an alert for Fonseca, he turned himself in at the South Hilo police station Wednesday and was arrested and charged on a bench warrant for contempt of court.
