The Kapalama Driver Licensing Center will be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. today to accommodate customers affected by this week’s service interruption.
The center, at 925 Dillingham Blvd., will process applications for state IDs and provide all regular driver’s licensing services except for road tests.
Also, the city Department of Customer Services announced Friday that vehicle owners with motor vehicle registrations that expired Friday and were affected by the service interruption have been granted a one-time extension until Friday.
Affected vehicle owners can avoid a penalty by making a payment at a satellite city hall or submitting a payment via mail, postmarked no later than Friday. There is no extension or penalty waiver for online vehicle registration payments.
Hawaii Gas customers warned of scam
Hawaii Gas is warning consumers of a phone scam in which individuals have attempted to collect payments by threatening to shut off gas service or telling victims that they need to prepay for unscheduled repairs.
The calls have targeted commercial customers on Oahu. The scammers provide a mainland phone number for verification.
Hawaii Gas requests that anyone who receives such a call or visit call 535-5933 or the Police Department.
Ruling favors prosecutor in gambling case
The Honolulu prosecutor’s office followed correct procedures when it filed for forfeiture of illegal gambling machines seized in 2012, the Intermediate Court of Appeals ruled Friday.
Honolulu police confiscated 77 machines from six Winner’z Zone parlors around Oahu in September 2012. The machines were owned by PJY Enterprises LLC.
Prosecutor Keith Kaneshiro filed petitions with the Attorney General’s Office for administrative forfeiture of the machines. PJY filed a challenge to the petitions and asked for judicial review.
In a follow-up move, Kaneshiro’s office in December 2012 also petitioned the Circuit Court for forfeiture of the property. PJY claimed those petitions were filed too late, and Circuit Judge Randall Lee agreed.
The appellate court overturned that ruling and sent the case back to Circuit Court.
Earlier this year the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a ruling by Judge Leslie Kobayashi that the machines were gambling devices.
