HAWAI'I BRIEFS
3-car collision injures 3 on Maui
Advertiser Staff
A 49-year-old man was in critical condition at The Queen's Medical Center last night following a three-car collision on Maui's Pi'ilani Highway Sunday night.
Police said the accident occurred just south of Ohukai Road in Kihei when a car driven by a 62-year-old woman crossed the yellow center line and collided with a car driven by the 49-year-old man.
The impact caused the man's car, a 2000 Acura Integra, to swerve into the oncoming lane of traffic and collide with a third vehicle, whose driver also was injured, police said.
The driver of the first car received minor injuries, police said.
BIG ISLE ESCAPEE RECAPTURED
A Big Island man was back in police custody last night after a short-lived escape.
David Kaleikao Scheper, 35, who was being held on a contempt of court charge in the Kona cellblock, escaped from custody Sunday after he was taken to Kona Community Hospital and climbed through a false ceiling in a bathroom.
Police searched the area and found him four hours later within 150 yards of the hospital, still wearing leg restraints. He now faces a second-degree escape charge, a Class C felony, officials said.
MAN INJURED IN WAIKIKI ASSAULT
A man was found lying in the street near Kuhio and Ka'iulani avenues yesterday morning, the victim of an apparent assault, police said.
The man was treated at the scene by firefighters at 3:21 a.m., and police were searching for his attacker.
The man told police he was hit in the head from behind while crossing the street.
Police opened a second-degree assault case in connection with the attack.
DANGEROUS SLUG SHOWS UP IN ISLES
HILO, Hawai'i — An invasive slug that causes serious illnesses when eaten has invaded the Big Island and O'ahu.
The parmarion martensi is a brown slug about 2 inches long that sometimes clings to homegrown products such as lettuce. If not washed and inspected thoroughly, ingestion of the slug can cause meningitis, pulmonary disease and gastrointestinal illness.
The slug showed up on O'ahu in 1996, and health officials now say it is more prevalent on the Big Island, where it first appeared in 2004.
"There were a lot of slugs everywhere," said Rob Hollingsworth, an entomologist with the Pacific Basic Agricultural Research Center in Hilo.
The slug is a known carrier of a disease-causing parasite.
