A 21-year-old military man has been charged with urinating on a burial mound protecting the skeletal remains of 200 Hawaiians outside the Honolulu Zoo.
Cody Pace of Camp Smith was charged Tuesday with desecration, violating park closure and urinating in public. His bail was set at $3,000.
About 2 a.m. Tuesday, Pace walked past an officer who warned him that the park was closed, and then urinated on the burial mound fronting the zoo, a source said.
He was arrested at 2:03 a.m. at the zoo.
The burial mound was dedicated in 2002 and protects the iwi kupuna (ancestral remains) of 200 Hawaiians displaced by Waikiki construction projects. At the time of its dedication, the memorial still had room for hundreds more iwi kupuna.
Suspect charged in diamond switcheroo
A Wahiawa man was in custody Wednesday after switching a diamond with a cubic zirconia in a theft at a Keeau- moku Street jewelry store, authorities said.
Lucas Miller, 26, was charged Tuesday with second-degree theft and remained at Oahu Community Correctional Center unable to post $11,000 bail.
The incident happened at about 11:05 a.m. at J.E.S. Jewelry at Rycroft and Keeaumoku streets and involved a diamond valued at more than $750, a court document says.
Police said Miller asked store staff to see the diamond, then swapped the diamond with the cubic zirconia.
He was arrested about an hour later, apparently after the staff noticed the deception.
Pair captured in theft of woman’s purse
Hawaii island police have charged two people in connection with a purse-snatching at a Waimea restaurant Friday.
According to police, a 64-year-old Paauilo woman was at a shopping center restaurant when a man grabbed her purse from the table and fled in a waiting SUV driven by a woman.
The victim attempted to stop the vehicle by grabbing the driver-side mirror, and suffered minor injuries when the vehicle drove away and she fell to the ground, police said.
Witnesses provided police with the license plate number of the SUV. Police subsequently located the vehicle as it pulled into a parking lot off Highway 190 and arrested the female driver and a male passenger in the theft case.
On Sunday, police charged Linda Chong Tim-Castro, 38, of Kailua-Kona with reckless endangering, theft, theft/forgery of a credit card and unauthorized possession of confidential information. Her bail was set at $10,500.
Passenger Gary Paulaau, 35, of Kailua-Kona, was charged with theft, theft/forgery of a credit card, unauthorized possession of personal confidential information, promoting a dangerous drug, possessing drug paraphernalia and contempt of court. His bail was set at $50,200.
Runaway burning car hits utility pole
Police are investigating a report of a car that caught fire, rolled down Wilhelmina Rise early Wednesday morning and ended up hitting a utility pole.
Firefighters were summoned to the 1700 block of Wilhelmina Rise at 2:20 a.m. because of a report of a burning car.
No one was in the car, a fire official said.
The case was reported as a suspicious fire and turned over to the police.
