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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Thursday, July 16, 2009

Fatality defendant has 3-DUI record


By Jim Dooley
Advertiser Staff Writer

Siaosi "One Eye George" Feleunga, charged with negligent homicide in the December death of motorcyclist Lindsay Kane, has a lengthy criminal record and a history of failing to appear in court, according to documents filed by prosecutors.

When Feleunga, 31, allegedly crashed his truck into Kane's motorcycle on Farrington Highway in Waipahu Dec. 29, at least two bench warrants for his arrest had been outstanding since October 2006, court documents show.

Feleunga was indicted Tuesday on charges of negligent homicide, leaving the scene of an accident and driving with a revoked or suspended license.

He was arrested yesterday and was being held in lieu of $100,000 bail.

Feleunga has three drunken-driving convictions as well as six assault convictions, court records show.

In October 2006, arrest warrants for Feleunga were issued after he failed to appear in court to prove that he had complied with court sentences handed down in three earlier drunken-driving convictions.

They were not served until January of this year, after he was initially arrested following Kane's death.

Outstanding arrest warrants are a chronic problem for law enforcement here.

The Advertiser reported earlier that more than 50,000 traffic and misdemeanor arrest warrants are in the files of sheriffs and police departments around the state but can't be served because of manpower shortages and priorities given to more serious warrants.

Prosecutors allege that Kane was fatally injured after Feleunga, driving his truck in the left lane, tried to make an illegal right turn and smashed into Kane's Harley-Davidson motorcycle.

Feleunga fled the scene. Kane died after being hospitalized.