Suspect in officer’s H-1 death is arrested
State sheriff’s deputies arrested the motorist believed responsible for the freeway crash that killed a Honolulu Police Department officer last year.
An Oahu grand jury returned an indictment Tuesday charging Scott Ebert with manslaughter in the Jan. 21, 2012, death of officer Garret Davis.
Ebert was arrested on Friday. His bail was set at $100,000.
According to police, Davis had stopped his blue-and-white HPD patrol car in the left eastbound lane of the H-1 freeway near the Kaonohi Street overpass to assist another driver whose vehicle had a blown tire.
Prosecutors said Ebert’s truck was traveling at 83 mph when it crashed into the back of Davis’ car.
3 men found safe after boat capsizes
The Coast Guard rescued three men from their capsized boat 14 miles off Kaneohe Bay Friday night.
A friend of the men called the Coast Guard at 7:20 p.m. and said the men needed help after their 23-foot boat capsized, the Coast Guard said Saturday.
The Coast Guard launched an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter from Barbers Point and diverted the Cutter Kiska to the area.
The stricken vessel had an emergency position-indicating radio beacon, or EPIRB, which helped the helicopter crew find the boat. One man was sitting on the hull and the others were in the water.
A Coast Guard rescue swimmer helped the men into the helicopter and they were flown to Barbers Point, where an ambulance was standing by. The men were uninjured, the Coast Guard said.
"The EPIRB took the search out of this search-and-rescue case," said Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Kevin Cooper.
The Coast Guard said the boat remains adrift and broadcast a safety alert for mariners to be alert for it.
4 people hurt in spate of moped crashes
A 24-year-old woman was critically injured when she apparently lost control of her moped and crashed early Saturday in Aiea, according to an Emergency Medical Services report.
The crash happened on Honomanu Street and Kamehameha Highway at about 1:07 a.m., an EMS official said. Paramedics took the woman to the hospital in critical condition.
Police closed the Ewa-bound lanes of Kamehameha Highway near the Moanalua Freeway split for about three hours while they investigated the crash.
On Friday, three people were seriously injured in separate moped accidents in Kaimuki, Waimanalo and Waikiki.
A 22-year-old man was seriously injured when the moped he was operating crashed into an unspecified stationary object on 10th Avenue at about 8:25 p.m.
At about 9:09 p.m., paramedics took a 24-year-old woman to the hospital in serious condition after an accident near Bellows Air Force Station.
A 50-year-old man was injured in another accident at about 9:40 p.m. near the intersection of Ala Wai Boulevard and Ainakea Way.
