Satellite city hall reopens
The Waianae Satellite City Hall opened for business Tuesday, following an apparent break-in during which the site was ransacked.
Police responding to an alarm at 1:50 a.m. Sunday at the satellite city hall found a plate glass window broken and the office ransacked, city officials said. Police found a young male hiding inside, and he was taken into custody.
The incident marked the second apparent case of vandalism at a satellite city hall in the past several months. In October a brick was thrown through the Dillingham Square driver’s license office.
Also, over the weekend the meeting room on the second floor of the Ala Wai Golf Course clubhouse was vandalized when someone sprayed fire extinguishers throughout the room commonly known as the Palladium.
The Waianae and Ala Wai incidents do not appear to be related, city spokesman Jesse Broder Van Dyke said.
Jail time eluded in dive incident
KAILUA-KONA » A fish collector who tore a scuba regulator out of the mouth of an anti-aquarium fish activist won’t have to spend time in jail if he stays out of trouble under a plea agreement.
West Hawaii Today reported Tuesday that Jay Lovell pleaded no contest in Circuit Court to second-degree terroristic threatening Feb. 10. He received a six-month deferred sentence and must also obtain an anger management assessment as part of the agreement reached between prosecutors and his lawyer.
Lovell won’t have to serve the time, and the incident may be removed from his record if he stays out of trouble for one year.
Rene Umberger and five other divers were filming Lovell in about 50 feet of water when Lovell ripped the regulator out of Umberger’s mouth.
Car plummets off Maui road
Three women from Sweden escaped serious injury Monday when their car fell 80 feet over the side of Maui’s Kahekili Highway near Napili.
The Maui Fire Department said the accident occurred at 10:20 a.m. when the car carrying the women, headed toward Lahaina along a single-lane portion of the highway, got too close to the edge of the pavement and the vehicle rolled over the edge, coming to rest 80 feet below.
When firefighters arrived, the three women, ages 20 to 25, had already been helped out of the vehicle by area residents. An ambulance took two women to the hospital in good condition, and the other was flown by Maui Medevac to Maui Memorial Medical Center in stable condition.
