Driver sentenced to 10 years for dragging police officer
HONOLULU POLICE DEPARTMENT
Derek Torres is seen in this police mugshot.
A man who tried to flee in a stolen car — dragging a police officer in a Pearl City parking lot in 2014 — was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday for attempted assault.
Derek Torres pled guilty in August and will serve a two-year mandatory minimum as a repeat offender, according to a press release from Prosecuting Attorney Keith Kaneshiro. He was charged with first-degree attempted assault.
Torres, who was 43 at the time, was in a stolen car in a parking lot on Kamehameha Highway in Pearl City on August 12, 2014. When confronted by a uniformed police officer, Torres drove away, dragging the officer about 40 feet along the pavement.
“The officer sustained a severe laceration to his right hand along with numerous contusions, abrasions and scratches,” the prosecutor said.
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10 years for almost killing a cop? Kaneshiro’s plea bargaining is also criminal. No support for the police from his office.
Actually, 10 years is more than most criminals get in Hawaii for actually killing someone.
He may only serve two of those ten years:
“Derek Torres pled guilty in August and will serve a two-year mandatory minimum as a repeat offender,”
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Uh, you can see the prison terms people get for killing someone right here:
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Hawaii really needs to fix its lousy prosecutorial system. Kaneshiro would not even be an attorney on the mainland. The public is just a constant victim of horrendous crime o9ut here.
That’s way more time than if he KILLED someone else.
Lucky there were no pothole in the parking lot like our public roadways do.
Dragging a officer? He sure will be the laughing stock in the prison camp.
At least that is 10 years that he won’t be able to commit a crime.
if it were a cop dragging a civilian, there wouldn’t even be a conviction.