HILO >> A Hawaii Island woman has pleaded not guilty to a charge of second-degree murder in the starving death of her 9-year-old granddaughter.
A Nov. 13 trial date was set for 59-year-old Henrietta Stone at her arraignment Tuesday, the Hawaii Tribune-Herald reported.
Stone is charged along with her daughter, the child’s mother, Tiffany Stone, 33, and the father, Kevin Lehano, 50.
All three remained in custody at Hawaii Community Correctional Center in lieu of $100,000 bail.
Henrietta Stone was the child’s legal guardian.
Authorities temporarily took the girl and her brother from Lehano and Tiffany Stone in February 2007, according to a court affidavit.
Years later, police found the girl to be severely malnourished in June 2016. She died at a hospital hours after authorities made contact.
At the arraignment Tuesday, the state Department of Education stated Henrietta Stone removed her granddaughter from a Hilo elementary school for home-schooling eight months prior to the child’s death.
Woman charged in Nanakuli robbery
Prosecutors on Thursday charged a 29-year-old woman in the robbery of a 38-year-old man in Nanakuli on July 13.
Police arrested Tiera Chevalier-Rodrigues on Wednesday on suspicion of first-degree robbery.
She was charged Wednesday with that crime. Her bail was set at $100,000.
Police said Chevalier-Rodrigues allegedly threatened the man with a dangerous instrument, and the man fled.
Another man chased down the victim and allegedly assaulted him with a dangerous instrument and took his belongings, police said.
Hilo woman killed in crash identified
A 22-year-old Hilo woman who died in a single-vehicle crash on Highway 19 in Hilo has been identified as Micaila Tellio.
At about 5:40 a.m. Tuesday, Tellio was operating a 2004 Honda sedan traveling north on the highway near Nahala Street when the vehicle ran off the roadway.
Police said Tellio was taken to Hilo Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.
This is the 21st traffic-related fatality on the Big Island this year, compared with 12 at the same time last year.
Anyone with information on the crash is asked to call police officer Casey Cabral of the Hawaii Police Department at 961-2329 or email Casey.Cabral@hawaiicounty.gov.
Tipsters also may call CrimeStoppers at 961-8300.
