Prosecutors have charged a 43-year-old man with interfering with a city bus driver while he was driving in Chinatown.
At about noon Wednesday, police said, Erik D. McHenry of no local address interfered with the bus driver near the intersection of South Beretania and Queen Emma streets when he allegedly grabbed and jerked the steering wheel of the bus, causing the bus to veer into the next lane. The bus driver regained control of the wheel, bringing it safely to a stop.
Police arrest teen caught spraying graffiti
A police officer on his way to work at 7 a.m. Thursday spotted a teenager spraying graffiti on a storage container in Moiliili.
He called police dispatch, then approached the boy, identified himself as a police officer and arrested him.
When he told the boy he was under arrest, the teen resisted, police said. A civilian CrimeStoppers volunteer jumped in to help. The teen fled but was detained a short distance away.
5 separate vehicle fires reported on Maui
Maui firefighters Tuesday were called to extinguish five separate early morning fires involving abandoned cars, one of which was believed to be intentionally set.
The first alarm was called in at 2:43 a.m. in Kula on Pulehu Road at Omaopio Road. Firefighters found a vehicle fully engulfed by flames on the shoulder of the road. The cause of the fire was undetermined.
An hour later, at 3:45 a.m., two more vehicle fires were reported on East Waiko Road in Waikapu. One was roughly 400 yards west of the Waiale Road intersection, and the other was about 300 yards east of the intersection. Both were of unknown cause.
At 3:53 a.m. a Kahului engine and tanker crew arrived at the entrance to the former Maui Scrap Metal Co. site east of the Waiale Road intersection and found a vehicle fully engulfed in flames. The cause of the fire was undetermined.
Wailuku firefighters crew found a truck on the shoulder of Waiko Road west of the Waiale Road intersection fully engulfed by fire, which spread into the brush. Firefighters quickly brought the fire under control, but not before it burned a 50-by-200-foot area of brush and caused roughly $3,000 in damage to a nearby fence. The brush and vehicle fires were called extinguished at 4:34 a.m.
A fire investigator determined that that fire was intentionally set and originated in the bed of the truck, where a pile of car tires was believed to have been discarded.
It was unknown whether the fires were connected.
