Maui woman falls off cliff with 100-foot drop, clings to tree

Maui firefighters Wednesday night rescued a fisherwoman who fell about 25 feet off the edge of a cliff with a 100-foot drop in Haiku.

The 35-year-old Maui resident was clinging to a tree when firefighters arrived. She had fallen on the east side of Maliko Gulch, the Maui Fire Department said in a press release.

The fire department received reports of the fall at 6:57 p.m.

Ex-police sergeant gets probation in bribery scheme

A former Maui police sergeant convicted in a scheme to bribe a man to withdraw a complaint to the police department has been sentenced to three years of probation.

Walter Ahuna, 36, also was ordered to pay a $2,000 fine following his sentencing Monday in federal court in Honolulu. Ahuna pleaded guilty to witness tampering in June 2017.

Ahuna was the last of four men to be sentenced in the case that stemmed from former Officer Anthony Maldonado’s theft of about $1,800 during a traffic stop in Lahaina in September 2015.