Phone call, fuel cans lead to road closure

Police closed a roadway for three hours Tuesday in Kaneohe after a caller said he had placed fuel cans that might blow up at a health center near Windward Community College.

The man made the call at about 12:06 p.m. from a phone with a blocked caller ID to the Windward Health Center, just mauka of Kaneohe District Park, police said.

The caller said he placed two diesel fuel cans in the sun near the Health Center driveway, and said they could possibly blow up.

Police determined that because of the call and the possibility of it being an explosive device, it was best to shut the mauka-bound lanes of Keaahala Road.

Police secured the area and waited for the bomb squad to assess the contents of the can.

The bomb squad determined that there was possibly some diesel fuel in the cans but that they were not an immediate threat to anyone in the immediate area, Lt. Channing Hawkins of the Kaneohe station said.

A city contractor was called to remove the cans.

The roadway was reopened at about 3:15 p.m.

Woman charged with threatening, assault

Prosecutors charged a 36-year-old Pearl Harbor-area woman Tuesday for allegedly trying to run over her boyfriend in Kalihi on Sunday.

Tagi Arruda was charged with first-degree terroristic threatening and second-degree assault. Her bail was set at $25,000.

Police said Arruda attempted to run over her boyfriend at about 11:25 a.m. Sunday, then hit him with an object, causing substantial bodily injury.

She was arrested at 11:29 a.m. Sunday on suspicion of second-degree assault.