POLICE BEAT
Spray-painter to face charges
Advertiser Staff
Prosecutors have charged a 51-year-old man with assault for allegedly spray-painting a police officer.
Paul D. Roylo of Papipi Road was charged Saturday with first-degree assault on a police officer and third- and fourth-degree criminal property damage.
Police said they had to use pepper spray to arrest Roylo Thursday at 11:40 p.m. on a makai-side roadway of Ala Moana Center.
Roylo is being held in lieu of $11,000 bail.
According to police, Roylo was seen spray-painting the roadway pavement fronting the shopping center. He refused to comply with an officer's order to stop and sprayed gold paint on the officer, police said.
Roylo also is accused of causing minor injury to the officer's leg while resisting arrest.
CRASH INJURIES KILL WOMAN, 77
A 77-year-old 'Ewa Beach woman has died of injuries suffered Thursday in a car crash on North Road and Kilaha Street, according to the Honolulu Medical Examiner's Office.
Autopsy findings listed cause and manner of death for Julia Gomes as blunt-force injury of the chest due to an accidental motor vehicle collision.
Gomes died at The Queen's Medical Center at 1:31 p.m., about four hours after the accident.
THEFT SUSPECT ARRESTED AT SCHOOL
Nanakuli High & Intermediate School continues to be plagued by off-hours break-ins.
Police said they responded to an alarm call at 3:31 a.m. yesterday and arrested a man coming out of a room carrying stolen items.
The suspect is a Nanakuli resident from Ualakahiki Place. He has six convictions, according to Hawai'i Criminal Justice Data Center records.
On Oct. 21, a break-in at the high school office resulted in a deliberately set fire that caused $400,000 damage.
MURDER DEFENDANT DUE BEFORE JUDGE
A 23-year-old man being held in lieu of $1 million bail on a second-degree murder charge is scheduled to appear today in District Court.
RJ Ham was charged Friday with the Dec. 25 fatal stabbing of Fusitogamala Savea, 18, at Sunny's Market, 2215 N. School St., Kalihi.
Ham also is being held on a $20,000 probation revocation warrant.
