Police arrest man in cable outage case
A 42-year-old homeless man, alleged to have caused a telecommunications disruption after a cable was cut near the Honolulu Airport on Wednesday causing 500 Hawaiian Telcom telephone and Internet customers to lose service for nearly 12 hours, was charged Friday with copper theft.
Julian Medina’s bail was set at $15,000. He was arrested on Kilihau Street at 10:55 p.m. Wednesday, about an hour after the cable was cut.
The fiber-optic communications cable under the viaduct where the westbound lanes of Nimitz Highway meet the H-1 freeway near Kilihau Street was cut Wednesday night. Service wasn’t fully restored until 8:45 a.m Thursday. Data traffic also was rerouted.
Robbery suspect to appear in court
A preliminary hearing will be held Tuesday for a 29-year-old Waianae man charged with robbing a 66-year-old Ewa Beach homeowner while impersonating a law enforcement officer last week.
Brandon Reis has been charged with first-degree robbery, three counts of kidnapping, first-degree burglary, impersonating a law enforcement officer and firearm offenses in connection with a home invasion robbery Jan. 15. He is being held on $125,000 bail. Police said Reis was one of three men who broke into an Ewa Beach home claiming to be law enforcement officers.
Jilted lover charged in shooting incident
A 44-year-old Mililani man has been charged with attempted murder after he tried to kill his girlfriend, whom he caught in bed with another man Wednesday.
Police said Jason Kila removed several louvers of a bedroom at a Kiilani Street home in Mililani and pointed a handgun at the couple at about 8 a.m. A 45-year-old man managed to wrestle the gun away from the suspect, who then fled. The suspect returned with a shotgun and fired once through the same window, police said, but no one was injured.
Police arrested Kila, of a Kauluikua Place address, at the scene at about 10 a.m. He was also charged with first-degree burglary and several firearm violations. Bail was set at $40,000.
