Kaneshiro gets top law enforcement award
Hawaii’s top law enforcement officers are being honored by a coalition of agencies in the state.
Honolulu Prosecutor Keith Kaneshiro won the Law Enforcement/Security Coalition of Hawaii’s top award at a banquet on Thursday. A letter from the coalition says the award is presented for outstanding service and activity that benefits law enforcement, private security or criminal justice.
Kaneshiro congratulated other honorees by saying law enforcement is a truly noble profession.
Other honorees include an Naval Criminal Investigative Service special agent who investigated a case in which three Pearl Harbor shipyard employees were accused of trying to sell 30,000 pounds of government scrap metal worth about $1 million.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Beverly Wee Sameshima won an award for earning a conviction against a couple who ran a large cockfighting operation in Waianae.
Global sailor arrives in Hilo
A self-taught sailor from Port Townsend, Wash., has stopped in Hilo on the latest leg of his attempt to sail around the world.
If successful, Rimas Meleshyus, 61, would set a record for the smallest boat to circumnavigate the globe, the Hawaii Tribune-Herald reports.
He is making the attempt in his 24-foot sloop, Pier Pressure, not built for sea crossings. He arrived Oct. 21 in Hilo Bay.
“I’m very determined,” said Meleshyus, who fled the Soviet Union in 1988 by seeking asylum at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. “I’m a very adventurous person.”
Meleshyus said he began sailing in 2011 after buying a similar-size boat. He first set out on a round-the-world sailing trip in 2012 but ran aground in the Gulf of Alaska.
Meleshyus plans to sail next to Tahiti, then the southern tip of South America, Cape Horn.
Forms available for deer hunting
Application forms for the axis deer hunting season on Lanai are available beginning today from the state Division of Forestry and Wildlife.
The archery-only hunt begins Feb. 15 and lasts for eight consecutive days, the division announced.
The muzzleloading rifle hunt will be conducted on two consecutive weekends, March 1-2 and March 8-9. The general rifle hunt will be held over nine consecutive weekends beginning March 15 and ending May 11.
The bag limit will be two deer — one doe and one of either sex — per hunter.
There will be a drawing for the rifle hunts, but not for the archery hunt, and there will be no limit on the number of archers allowed to participate.
