A body floating in the ocean was recovered Friday near D.T. Fleming Beach Park in northwestern Maui.
Maui County ocean safety personnel retrieved the body, which was floating facedown, at 11:58 a.m.
Firefighters and paramedics performed lifesaving measures, but the victim, identified as Jamie Ceon, 58, of Lahaina, could not be revived and was declared dead at the scene, Maui County Fire Services Officer Edward Taomoto said.
Taomoto said bystanders walking at Makaluapuna Point reported seeing Ceon’s body in the water.
Man caught shoplifting on Christmas Eve
A 28-year-old man was charged Thursday with shoplifting at Ala Moana Center.
Scott Gibu Oshiro, who has no local address, was charged with second-degree theft and a drug offense. His bail was set at $15,000.
Police said Oshiro was shoplifting at a store at the mall at about 3:24 p.m. Wednesday. During his arrest, officers found a small amount of drugs on him.
2 women displaced after fire at Maui home
Fire broke out at a Kihei home while the two women who lived there were at church Thursday night, the Maui Fire Department reported.
Arriving Wailea firefighters found the single-story residence on Kahale Street about 75 percent engulfed in flames at about 8:08 p.m., according to a Fire Department news release.
The Red Cross is assisting the displaced women.
The cause of the fire is under investigation. No damage estimate was immediately available.
Woman, 18, hurt after jumping out of car
An 18-year-old woman was in serious condition after she apparently jumped out of a moving car on Waianae Valley Road on Thursday night, according to an Emergency Medical Services report.
Paramedics treated the woman and took her in serious condition to a hospital after the incident at about 8:39 p.m.
No other information was immediately available.
Homeless man accused in 2 sex assaults
Hawaii County authorities charged a homeless man who allegedly raped and kidnapped a Big Island woman and girl Tuesday in the Piihonua area.
Oran Charles Kita, 36, who has no local address, was being held on $891,000 bail after being charged Thursday night with 15 counts of first-degree sex assault, seven counts of third-degree sex assault, two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening, two counts of kidnapping and promoting a detrimental drug.
Kita is scheduled to appear in court Monday to face those charges.
Police said the victims, an adult woman and juvenile girl, didn’t know the man, but declined to say whether the victims are related to each other.
Police arrested Kita on Wednesday on suspicion of 42 offenses related to the sexual assault and on a grand jury indictment for first-degree promotion of marijuana and other charges related to a 2011 search warrant at his former home in Hawaiian Paradise Park.
He appeared in court Thursday in connection with the marijuana case.
According to police, the assailant approached the woman and the girl sometime between 1 and 4 p.m. Tuesday in the area of the Piihonua bridge. He took them to a remote area, threatened them and sexually assaulted both of them, police said. Police said they are also investigating Kita in connection with a 2011 sex assault case. No charges have been filed in that case.
