POLICE BEAT
Three hospitalized in Waipahu accident
Advertiser Staff
Three people were taken to area hospitals, including a 16-year-old boy who was in critical condition, after a single-car accident in Waipahu yesterday morning, according to the city Emergency Services Department.
The accident happened at 8:37 p.m. in front of Hawaii's Plantation Village on a winding section of Waipahu Street. Two people, whose ages were not disclosed, were taken to St. Francis Medical Center-West with minor injuries, said Bryan Cheplic, spokesman for the Emergency Services Department. The teen was taken to The Queen's Medical Center in critical condition, he said.
JoAnn Fakler works at Hawaii's Plantation Village and said most people who travel along that stretch of Waipahu Street know of its dangers and drive with caution. She said this was the first accident she's seen along the road in the seven years she has worked at the plantation village.
"Because of the winding road and because the turns are so tight, most people know not to speed in this area," Fakler said.
MAN SUSPECTED IN CAR, BOAT CRASHES
A 65-year-old man was arrested on various felony charges Tuesday night after he allegedly crashed the car he was driving into a parked car on Ala Moana, then crashed an 81-foot power boat into several moored vessels in the Ala Wai Small Boat Harbor while trying to elude police.
Witnesses called police about 10:40 p.m. to report that a motorist had struck a parked car and fled. One of the witnesses followed the motorist to the Ala Wai harbor, where the driver reportedly climbed aboard a boat.
After hitting several boats, the man wedged his boat alongside another large boat. The owner of the other boat and a police officer jumped onto the fleeing boat and subdued the man.
NEIGHBORS ARGUE OVER BARKING DOG
Police defused a confrontation between neighbors in Kaimuki on Tuesday stemming from a barking dog.
A 44-year-old man was upset over his neighbor's barking dog and yelled at him to quiet down the dog, police said.
Police said the dog's owner yelled back. The man bothered by the dog told police he then ran up to his neighbor's fence and screamed obscenities. He said the dog's owner went into his house and returned holding a shotgun.
Police were called to the scene and detained the 49-year-old man with the shotgun. The neighbor who was upset at the dog decided to shake hands and drop the complaint. The dog's owner promised to move the dog to the other side of his house, police said.
ARREST FOLLOWS ALLEGED CAR FLIP
A 63-year-old man was arrested Tuesday in connection with an April 24 incident in Waialua in which a 62-year-old man reported being inside a car that was flipped over by a forklift.
Police were told that the two men were arguing over whether the car in question needed to be removed from a lot in Waialua.
They said the younger man got into the car to try to keep the older man from removing it with a forklift. Police were told the older man then picked up the car with the forklift and partially flipped it over with the other man still inside.
The man who was in the car told police he jumped out to avoid serious injury.
