A small-craft advisory remains in effect at least until 6 a.m. Tuesday for Maui’s Maalaea Bay and the Pailolo (Molokai-Maui) and Alenuihaha (Maui-Big Island) channels.
Easterly and northeasterly winds up to 30 mph are expected for those waters, the National Weather Service said.
Also, a high-wind warning was in effect Sunday for the summits of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, with 50 mph winds and gusts of 60 mph, the weather service said. The advisory is in effect above 8,000 feet until at least 6 a.m. today.
Inmate receives another 10 years for altercation
A 27-year-old prison furlough violator was sentenced last week to 10 years in prison for an armed confrontation with police in Hilo.
Hilo Circuit Judge Glenn Hara ruled Thursday the sentence for Joshua Lopes-Keli would run consecutively to the 10-year term he’s serving on a 2010 robbery conviction, which expires Dec. 20, 2020. He also ordered Lopes-Keli to serve a mandatory minimum term of 40 months before becoming eligible for parole, the Hawaii Tribune-Herald reported.
Lopes-Keli pleaded guilty last month to first-degree terroristic threatening and being a felon in possession of a firearm. In return for his guilty pleas, prosecutors dropped charges of violating terms of furlough, resisting arrest, promoting a dangerous drug, marijuana possession and four other firearm offenses.
Lopes-Keli was wanted by police when officers found him at about 1:06 a.m. Dec. 5 in a parking lot on Rainbow Drive in Hilo, sitting in a car with a 23-year-old Waikoloa woman. According to court documents, when three officers approached the car, Lopes-Keli pulled out a Glock .45-caliber semi-automatic handgun while telling officers to shoot him.
Officer Christopher Jelsma struggled with Lopes-Keli for control of the firearm. Ultimately, one of the officers shot Lopes-Keli with a Taser.
Deputy Public Defender Michael Ebesugawa argued for concurrent terms of imprisonment and no mandatory minimum, telling the judge, “We hope that Mr. Lopes-Keli will be released while still a young man, at a time while he still possesses the will, the time and the strength to reconstruct his life.”
