Motorcyclist dies after crashing into wall
A 40-year-old Honolulu man died Monday after the motorcycle he was operating crashed into a rock wall near Ko Olina.
According to police, the motorcyclist was riding west on Aliinui Drive at 12:09 p.m. when he lost control while going around a bend in the road and struck the rock wall.
The man had been riding with another motorcyclist, who was ahead of him, said Lt. Robert Towne of the Honolulu Police Department’s Traffic Division.
When the other rider looked back, she saw the man down and surrounded by motorists who had stopped to help him, he said.
Paramedics took the man in extremely critical condition to Pali Momi Medical Center where he was pronounced dead shortly after 1 p.m.
Police closed the offramp from Farrington Highway westbound to Aliinui Drive and the Ko Olina Resort area following the crash and reopened it at about 3:30 p.m.
This was the 14th traffic fatality on Oahu this year, compared with 16 at the same time last year.
Faulty outlet blamed for Foster Village fire
A fire that gutted a home in Foster Village on Wednesday was caused by an electrical malfunction in a wall outlet in the garage, fire officials said today.
The Honolulu Fire Department said its investigators determined the fire at 1231 Kukila St. was accidental.
No one was injured, although four people were in the home and able to escape.
The home was engulfed in flames at 5:32 p.m., and firefighters had the fire under control at 5:55 p.m.
It was fully extinguished by 8:03 p.m.
Damage was estimated at $350,000, and an additional $25,000 for two vehicles that were in the garage.
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Homeless man is charged in bank robbery
A 33-year-old homeless man from Pennsylvania has been charged with robbing the Wailea branch of First Hawaiian Bank of $1,550 on Thursday.
Michael Flocco was charged with second-degree robbery. His bail was set at $20,000.
Officers on Thursday found a man matching the description of the suspect and the moped off Old Makena Road near the Polo Beach Club.
Maui police found $1,880, of which $1,550 was confirmed to belong to the First Hawaiian Bank, on the suspect’s moped and among his property.
