Coast Guard halts search for boater missing off Big Isle
The Coast Guard on Monday suspended its search for a boater missing since Thursday in waters off Hawaii island.
Ron Ingraham, 67, was reported to have been sailing alone when his 25-foot vessel began taking on water about 46 miles west of Kailua-Kona.
Responding to Ingraham’s 8:03 a.m. mayday call, Coast Guard and Navy crews conducted an intensive search covering 12,000 miles over the past four days.
Involved in the search were MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crews and HC-130 Hercules airplane crews from Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point along with the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Ahi and a Navy P-3 Orion crew from Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay.
Ingraham had been traveling from Molokai to Lanai.
Woman’s body found in valley is identified
Hawaii County police have identified the body found in Waipio Valley on Sunday as 22-year-old Lindsey Nickerson of Kailua-Kona.
An autopsy performed Tuesday found Nickerson died of asphyxia due to drowning.
Nickerson became separated from a tour group of 25 hikers in Waipio Valley.
She was last seen alive Saturday afternoon.
Fire Department personnel discovered her body at 2 p.m. Sunday near a teahouse after finding Nickerson’s belongings near the Hiilawe River.
Maui driver allegedly tries to ram officer
Maui police arrested a man who allegedly struck a patrol car with a stolen vehicle and slightly injured a police officer Tuesday morning in the area of Makena State Park.
Police said that at 9:06 a.m. officers using GPS tracked a stolen vehicle to a parking lot at La Perouse Bay.
The driver was leaving the lot when he saw a patrol car, police said. The officer got out and stood by the driver’s side door and ordered the suspect to get out of his vehicle.
The man then allegedly accelerated the vehicle toward the officer, who jumped into the patrol car but not before he was struck by his own car door. The door was struck by the stolen vehicle, police said.
Police arrested the man on suspicion of attempted murder, first-degree criminal property damage and unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle.
