The Attorney General’s Office announced Tuesday it charged a man who escaped more than three months ago from Kahi Mohala, a psychiatric hospital in Ewa Beach.
A bench warrant was also issued for the arrest of Gregory A. LaBar on a charge of second-degree escape.
LaBar was under court-ordered custody with the state Department of Health when he escaped from Kahi Mohala on Sept. 28.
Police arrested LaBar in early November for violating park rules but released him without charges.
Honolulu Police Department spokeswoman Michelle Yu said Tuesday that due to a computer error, LaBar’s name did not show up as an escapee, and he was inadvertently released.
“The error has since been fixed,” she said by email.
Diana LaBar said her son, diagnosed with bipolar disorder and paranoid schizophrenia, could pose a danger to others and himself.
He was charged with petty misdemeanor shoplifting and felony terroristic threatening in a Kauai court but was found unfit to stand trial.
He is 6 feet 2 inches tall, 177 pounds, with brown hair and hazel eyes. Anyone who sees him is asked to call 911 or state sheriffs at 586-1352.
Hawaii island
Standoff ends with suspect shooting himself in car
A police standoff in the Hawaiian Beaches subdivision ended Tuesday when the man in question killed himself.
Police responded just after midnight to a report of gunshots fired at a house on Kamanu Street.
Arriving officers found a man armed with a rifle sitting in a car. Several more shots were fired, but it it was unclear whether the man was shooting at police.
Neighbors were asked to evacuate the area for safety reasons.
Crisis negotiators established communications with the man, who remained in his vehicle, police said.
He killed himself just before 1 p.m., police said.
Puna Parkway and Papio Street remained closed from Kahakai Boulevard, also cutting off any access to Kamanu Street while police continued their investigation.
Woman charged with firing gunshot at her boyfriend
Police on Tuesday charged a woman who allegedly fired a gunshot at her boyfriend in Pahala.
Officers responded to a report of a domestic dispute on Kuapala Street at about 10:50 a.m. Sunday.
Witnesses said a woman, Sophia Kaawa-Aweau, 33, entered her boyfriend’s house, removed various items and fired a single shot from a handgun. No one was injured.
She left in a vehicle before officers arrived. They found her later that day in a nearby macadamia nut field.
She was arrested and taken to the Kona cellblock.
On Tuesday police charged her with burglary, reckless endangering, theft, criminal property damage and carrying a firearm in the commission of a felony.
She remained in custody in lieu of $112,000 bail and was due to appear today in Kona District Court.
