HAWAI'I BRIEFS
City's financial report on Web
Advertiser Staff
Honolulu has posted online the latest comprehensive annual financial report for the fiscal year that ended June 30.
City Budget and Fiscal Services Director Mary Pat Waterhouse said the report gave "an unqualified or clean opinion" on the city's financial statements.
"The financial statements indicate a strong financial performance and improved fiscal stability," Waterhouse said.
The accounting firm of Nishihama & Kishida, CPAs, Inc. did the report under the direction of city auditor Leslie Tanaka.
The 226-page document can be downloaded at http://www.honolulu.gov/budget/cafr.htm.
ARRESTS LINKED TO METH TRAFFICKING
Police arrested three men Monday at separate locations on warrants charging them with trafficking crystal methamphetamine.
Delton Alae Avilla, 41; Kelly Keahi Pacheco, 36, and Saipele Siatini, 28, have a total of 25 prior convictions among them, according to Hawai'i Criminal Justice Data Center records.
Avilla, who has no permanent local address, was arrested in Ma'ili on one count of felony second-degree meth trafficking on a $15,000 warrant. He is also charged on four outstanding misdemeanor warrants totaling $900.
Pacheco, who has no local address, was arrested in Kapolei on a $15,000 meth trafficking warrant while Siatini was arrested at his residence on the 700 block of Kamehameha Highway on four meth-trafficking warrants totaling $35,000 and a $10,000 probation revocation warrant.
BIG ISLAND
STUDENTS TO JOIN DUI CHECKPOINTS
Students and relatives of DUI victims will be helping Big Island police this week and next at DUI checkpoints.
Pahoa High School students and members of University Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (UMADD) will be stationed at a checkpoint in Pahoa. Some of those participating will wave signs and distribute donated bottled water to sober drivers as they pass through the checkpoint. A Pahoa student will display a poster of her mother, who died in a DUI crash last year.
In Waimea, relatives of a brother and sister killed in two separate drunk driving crashes will display posters with photos of their loved ones.
