HAWAI'I BRIEFS
Centenarian, wife hurt in car crash
Advertiser Staff
A 100-year-old man was critically injured yesterday when the 1989 Honda station wagon his wife was driving veered off Dole Street, struck a concrete bench and wedged between a metal utility pole and large tree on the sidewalk near the Kanewai Park pavilion entrance.
The woman, 82, told police she dozed off. The crash was reported at 2:31 p.m. and forced the closure of a section of Dole Street from Kanewai Street to East-West Road to traffic for nearly three hours.
The woman, who suffered serious injury, and her husband were taken to The Queen's Medical Center. No other injuries were reported. Speed and alcohol do not appear to be factors, police said.
WAIKIKI
MAN PULLED FROM OCEAN DIES
A man was declared dead at Straub Hospital & Clinic yesterday after being pulled unconscious from waters about 200 yards offshore near the Sheraton Waikiki hotel. Ocean safety personnel on jet-powered watercraft responded. The incident was reported at 2:40 p.m.
KE'EAUMOKU
SWIMMER FOUND UNCONSCIOUS DIES
A man in his mid-20s was declared dead at Straub Hospital & Clinic at 11:21 a.m. yesterday after being found unconscious at a hotel swimming pool, according to EMS personnel.
The incident occurred at about 10:30 a.m. at a pool at the Pagoda Hotel on Rycroft Street.
HONOKA'A
CANDLE SPARKS HOUSE FIRE
An early morning fire started by a candle caused an estimated $150,000 damage yesterday to a Big Island home on Naupaka Street.
Two engine companies and a tanker responded to the 2:59 a.m. alarm and arrived at 3:03 a.m. to find flames and thick smoke coming from a bedroom window. The fire was reported under control at 3:30 a.m.
No injuries were reported.
MAKIKI
SUSPECT CHARGED IN ROBBERY, THREAT
A 50-year-old man was charged Friday with robbery and terroristic threatening.
Manfred Zendar is accused of using a heavy rake as a weapon to rob a 63-year-old Makiki businessman. Police said that Zendar, who fled when customers came to the store, called and threatened the businessman on the phone. He was arrested when he returned to the place of business.
Zendar was being held on $15,000 bail.
PEARL CITY
THREE HELD IN FORGERY, ILLEGAL RESIDENCY
Police are holding three men for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents after they were found to be in the United States illegally following their arrest for allegedly trying to cash checks with forged documents.
Marcos Garcia Torres, 37; Jesus Alejandro Polanco, 19; and Daniel Diaz Collado, 19, are expected to be deported back to Mexico. All were living at a Kaweloka Street address in Pearl City Uplands. They were arrested Saturday at 4:15 p.m. after trying to use forged documents as identification to cash checks, police said.
HONOKAI HALE
HUNDREDS LOSE POWER IN CRASH
A one-vehicle crash yesterday morning on Farrington Highway near La'aloa Street by the Honokai Hale subdivision caused a power failure in the area. Hundreds of residents were initially affected, but power was restored to most of them within an hour, according to Hawaiian Electric Co.
A HECO spokeswoman said power was restored to the last 30 customers about 6:20 p.m.
A Chevrolet sport utility vehicle drifted off the west-bound lanes and took down a utility pole. No one was injured in the crash, which was reported about 5:10 a.m. Work crews replaced the pole.
One right westbound lane was shut down all day and into the night, which caused some slowing of traffic.
