HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Cruise ship keeps flu quarantined
Advertiser Staff
About 60 passengers aboard the Pride of Aloha cruise ship were quarantined after they showed stomach flu symptoms.
The passengers were ordered to their rooms for 24 hours while on board but didn't face further restraints after disembarking at Honolulu Harbor yesterday.
Norwegian Cruise Line gave the passengers $200 on-board credit as compensation.
The interisland cruise had a capacity load of about 2,000 passengers at the time.
The company said the Pride of Aloha took preventive health measures and that illness would not be a problem on the next cruise.
"They won't allow you to touch anything related to food or any mutual thing," passenger Jerry Bates said. "They got a program on the (shipboard) TV that tells you about proper handwashing."
The Pride of Aloha left Honolulu yesterday for its next cruise.
MANOA
UH HIRES REP FOR AMERICAN SAMOA
John Gonzales has been hired by the University of Hawai'i Sea Grant College Program as its extension agent in American Samoa.
Gonzales recently received his master's degree from Purdue University, where he conducted research that evaluated the suitability of Nile tilapia as a potential source of nutrition for astronauts on long-duration space missions and as a consumer of waste residues produced on space flights.
Gonzales arrived in American Samoa on Thursday. He will be based at American Samoa Community College. In addition to teaching in the marine science department, Gonzales will promote aquaculture industry development in American Samoa.
PEARL CITY
BAIL REVOKED FOR ROBBERY SUSPECT
A 25-year-old Makakilo man — arrested Thursday at Leeward Bowl after being pursued by police from Waipahu to Pearl City following an armed robbery of a jeweler — found his $25,000 bail revoked Friday for a previous burglary charge.
Charges stemming from the robbery in the parking lot of the Golden Coin restaurant on Puko Street and the police pursuit were pending last night. The man is the only suspect arrested in the robbery case so far.
Shots were fired during the robbery but no gun was recovered, police said.
DOWNTOWN
MAN ARRESTED IN ALLEGED ABDUCTION
Police arrested a 32-year-old man for questioning about an alleged kidnapping and assault early yesterday in downtown Honolulu.
A woman, 19, told police she was walking near a shopping center on Pali Highway at 4:40 a.m. when she was approached by a man who offered to pay her for sex. After she declined the offer, the woman said, the man punched her several times and forced her into his car. She escaped by jumping out the passenger-side window when he stopped for a red light.
The woman reported the incident to police, who located and arrested a suspect from her description of his vehicle. Police said they found drugs and drug paraphernalia in the vehicle.
The woman was taken to The Queen's Medical Center with a possible broken jaw, police said.
The man was arrested for investigation of kidnapping, second-degree assault and two drug-related offenses.
