Beach park shut after shark is spotted
A shark sighting Tuesday afternoon prompted Ocean Safety officials to close Nanakuli Beach Park.
Lifeguards saw an 8-foot shark about 100 to 150 yards from shore, spinning out of the water.
Officials cleared people from the water and posted warning signs.
Man gets nearly 16 years in meth case
U.S. District Judge J. Michael Seabright on Monday sentenced a 57-year-old Waipahu man to 15 years and eight months in prison on charges stemming from distribution of nearly three pounds of methamphetamine from August 2010 through January 2011 in Hawaii.
Mario Cesar Torres was found guilty by a jury in February 2013 of conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, and three counts of distributing 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
Torres delivered about 1-pound quantities of methamphetamine on two occasions and was the driver in a third transaction, in which a passenger in his vehicle delivered about a pound of methamphetamine, according to federal prosecutors.
Police officer gives testimony on being shot
HILO » One of the police officers shot in the leg during an incident last year testified that the ordeal led to pain, sleepless nights and some depression.
Officer Joshua Gouveia spent his second day on the witness stand Monday sharing with jurors what it was like to be shot while investigating gunshots heard in a parking lot where officers found a man hiding under a vehicle.
"I was thinking that I was going to die," he said of realizing he had been shot in the upper left hip and thigh by the man under the vehicle.
Keaka Martin is on trial, accused of attempted murder in the shootings of Gouveia and officer Garrett Hatada.
Phone scams target couple on Big Island
A Keaau couple reported being the target of three telephone scams within two weeks, Hawaii County police said Tuesday.
The first call was to the couple’s cellphone claiming they had won the Publisher’s Clearing House prize of several million dollars and that someone would arrive in a couple of hours to deliver it. The area code showed the call originated from Jamaica.
The second was a call to the couple’s home phone from a blocked number by a woman with a foreign accent who began to ask questions about their computer.
The third scam was a call from an Arkansas area code with a mechanical female voice claiming the couple’s credit card had been blocked. The recipient hung up the phone.
Police urge the public to be suspicious of requests for personal information over the telephone or via the Internet.
