Ex-big-leaguer allegedly head-butts officer
Bronson Sardinha, a former Major League Baseball and Kamehameha Schools player, was arrested early Sunday morning at a Waipahu shopping center parking lot after he allegedly head-butted a police officer.
Sardinha, 32, allegedly head-butted the 49-year-old officer, who had responded to a report of a man and woman fighting in the parking lot of a restaurant, police said.
Sardinha was released Monday pending further investigation on charges of assaulting a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest. He also posted $1,000 bail for an outstanding warrant that was issued in August when he failed to appear for a District Court arraignment on a harassment charge.
Sardinha played for the New York Yankees in 2007 and retired from baseball as a minor-leaguer in 2011.
Shooting suspect charged with murder
Hawaii island police charged a 34-year-old man Sunday in connection with the shooting death of a 39-year-old Hilo man on ThanksgivingDay.
Witnesses reported hearing gunshots at a West Kawailani Street home and seeing a car drive away from the scene. Responding officers foundvictim Keola Penovaroff outside with multiple gunshot wounds. Penovaroff later died at Hilo Medical Center.
An autopsy showed that Penovaroff died of a gunshot wound to the chest, police said.
On Sunday police charged Kalani Lono Kaohimaunu with second-degree murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and twofirearm-related offenses. He is being held in lieu of $1 million bail.
Anyone who may have witnessed the shooting is asked to contact Detective Todd Pataray at 961-2382 or todd.pataray@hawaiicounty.gov.
Haleakala brush fire blackens some 25 acres
Maui firefighters battled a brush fire on the southern slopes of Haleakala that scorched about 25 acres Monday.
The fire was first reported at 5:11 a.m. No structures were threatened, and area homes are not being evacuated.
Piilani Highway was closed in the area of the fire between mile posts 24.5 and 26.
Firefighters from Kula were first to arrive at the fire at about 5:51 a.m. The blaze was about 80 percent contained at about 9 a.m., fireofficials reported. Two helicopters conducted water drops over the blaze.
The cause is unknown.
