3 hikers rescued from Wahiawa Hills trail
The Honolulu Fire Department rescued three overdue hikers who spent the night on the Wahiawa Hills trail, a spokesman said via email.
The Fire Department helicopter and rescue crews began searching the trail at about 10:15 p.m. Saturday after the father of one of the missing men reported that the hiking party had not returned.
A 39-year-old man and two men in their 20s began the hike at about 10 a.m. Saturday.
The search was suspended at 1:22 a.m. and resumed at about about 6:42 a.m. Sunday.
Firefighters and the Fire Department helicopter searched the trail area and located the hikers at 7:43 a.m., a Fire Department spokesman said. The helicopter airlifted the men to a landing zone at Iliahi Elementary School at about 8:24 a.m.
The men were not injured.
Teen arrested, suspected of auto theft
Police stopped a stolen vehicle and arrested a teenager on suspicion of auto theft, driving without a license and for possessing a prohibited replica gun they discovered in the vehicle.
Police said officers stopped the vehicle at about 2:17 p.m. Saturday in the Waianae area and arrested a 15-year-old boy.
The boy was released Saturday evening pending further investigation.
5 people rescued from overturned vehicle
Honolulu firefighters rescued five people trapped in an overturned vehicle in Kalihi on Saturday night.
Firefighters responded to 1805 Akone Place at about 9:30 p.m. and found a midsize vehicle overturned and lodged against a neighbor’s house with a man and four women pinned inside, a Fire Department spokesman said via email.
Firefighters stabilized the vehicle and got the people out. An ambulance took two of the women to the hospital. Their condition was not immediately available.
Search launched after dive float is found
A dive float found adrift Sunday a mile off Kualoa Beach Park on Oahu has prompted a public appeal by the Coast Guard to identify the owner.
The Coast Guard always assumes the worst in such situations — that the diver is missing — but most often the diver is in fact safely on shore.
“The Coast Guard encourages owners who lose their watercraft and dive gear to report it to the Coast Guard with a good description so that we can eliminate any unnecessary searches,” said Lt. j.g. Nicholas Spence, a command duty officer at the Coast Guard Honolulu Command Center, in an email.
There are currently no reported signs of distress or missing persons in the area, but the Coast Guard still launched an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter from Barbers Point to search the area. Officials also alerted mariners to watch out for a diver in the swells.
The float, found by a vessel at 3:18 p.m., is yellow with a torn orange-and-white dive flag.
Anyone with information that might help identify the owner is asked to contact the Honolulu Command Center at 842-2600.
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Woman charged with burglaries
An Ocean View woman will appear in court today in connection with three burglaries in Kailua-Kona.
Deborah Craig, 48, of Ocean View, also known as Deborah Dias, was arrested Thursday, police said. On Friday she was charged with three counts of first-degree burglary and four other alleged offenses. Her bail was set at $19,250.
She is accused in one burglary Oct. 14 at a home on the 77-200 block of Maliko Street, another Oct. 16 at a home on the 77-600 block of Princes Keelikolani Drive and a third Oct. 23 at a home on the 76-600 block of Alii Drive.
She remained in the Kona cellblock Sunday.
