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Not-guilty plea entered in murder attempt
A 30-year-old Manoa woman entered a plea of not guilty Tuesday in Circuit Court to an attempted murder charge stemming from an attempt to run down a 73-year-old woman with a car in a Waikiki parking garage.
Jill Anjuli Hansen also pleaded not guilty to charges of unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle and attempted unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle.
Hansen is accused of following Elizabeth Conklin into a secured parking garage at Diamond Head Apartments and allegedly hitting Conklin with her car as Conklin got out of her vehicle May 14.
Hansen was arraigned Tuesday morning in Circuit Court via closed-circuit video link with Oahu Community Correctional Center. She is in custody in lieu of $1 million bail.
Torching of victim brings plea of innocence
A 44-year-old Kaneohe man accused of dousing a drinking buddy with gasoline and setting him on fire entered a plea of not guilty Tuesday in Circuit Court.
Joel B. Lonzaga is charged with second-degree attempted murder of Tracy Carroll, third-degree promotion of a dangerous drug and possession of drug paraphernalia. Second-degree attempted murder carries a life sentence with the possibility of parole.
Lonzaga was arraigned Tuesday in Circuit Court via a closed-circuit video link from Oahu Community Correctional Center, where he remains in custody unable to post bail of $200,000.
Lonzaga was arrested near his mother’s Kaneohe home, where he lives, shortly after the May 7 attack.
Business customers’ phone service spotty
Hawaiian Telcom was to try to fix intermittent phone service for at least 100 business customers across the islands between 11 p.m. Tuesday and 2 a.m. Wednesday.
Customers may see more intermittent service during those times, but company officials had hoped to have the problem resolved by 2 a.m.
Since late Tuesday morning the company received about 100 confirmed reports from Business All-in-One customers, including the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, experiencing disrupted phone service, according to Ann Nishida Fry, Hawaiian Telcom spokeswoman.
The company started receiving reports at about 11 a.m.
Nishida Fry said the source of the trouble stemmed from a call processing problem with a server that provides a "virtual switchboard." She did not have an estimate of when service would be fully restored.
Calls should go to voice mail when the phone service is down, and customers should be able to access their voice mails from a non-Business All-in-One line, Nishida Fry said.
NEIGHBOR ISLANDS
Kauai man pleads guilty to killing girlfriend
Steven M. Wilson pleaded guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder in the stabbing death of his 21-year-old girlfriend on Kauai.
Wilson’s sentencing is set for Sept. 10. Second-degree murder carries a penalty of life in prison with the possibility of parole.
Sometime between April 11 and April 26, 2013, Wilson repeatedly stabbed Kendra Elizabeth Lewis in the abdomen, chest, neck and back, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Melinda K. Mendes said in a news release.
Lewis’ uncle found her body at a two-bedroom condominium at Kawaihau Sports Villa in Kapaa on April 26, 2013, according to a court affidavit. She was covered in a blanket on the floor of her bedroom.
Wilson and Lewis had dated for two years in Alaska and moved to Kauai in December 2012. According to the affidavit, Wilson “snapped” when he repeatedly stabbed Lewis with a hunting knife, and then he attempted to kill himself.
According to the affidavit, Lewis’ uncle said a friend of the couple told him the pair had argued when Lewis told Wilson she had an abortion after getting pregnant by another partner.
Blaze on Maui burns 4 acres of sugar cane
Maui fire investigators are trying to determine the cause of a fire that destroyed 4 acres of sugar cane on Holomua Road about a mile above the old Maui High School on Monday night.
Four fire companies from Paia and Kahului responded to the alarm just before 7 p.m. The cane fire was brought under control at 8 p.m.
No structures were threatened.