Suspect is charged in Pearl City burglary
Police have arrested and charged one of two men suspected of breaking into a Pearl City home in April.
Travis Hong Ah Nee, 24, was charged Thursday with first-degree burglary.
Police believe he is one of two men who allegedly broke into the home April 8.
Girl arrested in alleged Makiki break-in
A 17-year-old girl has been arrested for allegedly breaking into a Makiki home in May.
The suspect was arrested on suspicion of first-degree burglary Wednesday after she allegedly stole several items from the home.
California teen goes missing on Big Isle
Police on Hawaii island are searching for a 16-year-old California girl who was reported missing earlier this week.
The girl, Jasmine Keilani of San Diego, was last seen Tuesday morning on Alii Drive in Kailua-Kona. She is vacationing here with family in Kona, police said Friday.
Keilani is described as 5 feet 3 inches tall, weighing 125 pounds and having brown eyes and brown, shoulder-length hair with blond tips. She was wearing a tie-dyed top with faded denim shorts when she was last seen.
Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to call the Police Department’s non-emergency line at 935-3311.
Tipsters wishing to remain anonymous may also call CrimeStoppers at 961-8300.
Big Isle man is killed when jacked up car drops on him
A 58-year-old Hawaii island man died Wednesday when a van he was working under fell on him.
Hawaii County firefighters, responding to a 4:10 p.m. alarm on Ohia Street, found James Thomas Jones of Honokaa unresponsive under the vehicle. An ambulance took him to Hilo Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 9:04 p.m.
Police said Jones had been working under a jacked-up van when it collapsed onto him.
An autopsy Friday determined that Jones died from asphyxiation do to traumatic chest compression.
The case is classified as a home accident.
Telescope construction may get started in October
HILO » A consortium hoping to build a new optical telescope on Mauna Kea’s summit tentatively plans to break ground in October.
Thirty Meter Telescope project spokeswoman Sandra Dawson said during a panel discussion in Hilo that major construction could begin next spring. The Hawaii Tribune Herald reported this would put the telescope on course to begin operations in 2022.
Whether it will break ground in October depends on the outcome of Board of Land and Natural Resources hearings. The hearings will be about the sublease the University of Hawaii wants to award for the land on which the telescope would be built.
Telescope opponents have questioned whether appraisals of the land were done appropriately and whether Native Hawaiians were properly consulted.
The hearings could take as long as a year.
