Noshir Gowadia accused spy from Maui was found competent to stand trial.
Maui stores predict less than stellar holiday sales due to the economy.
A jury found Kipp Haole not guilty of first-degree terroristic threatening and guilty of disorderly conduct. Judge Cardoza sentenced him to 30 days. Haole was apparently yelling about killing someone and was found at his ex-girlfriend's house, and then according to the arresting officer threatened to kill him. Haole has been previously convicted of first-degree criminal property damage, violating a restraining order 5 times, criminal property damage 5 times, terroristic threatening 4 times, DUI, third-degree assault, third-degree promotion of a detrimental drug and contempt of court 3 times.
You folks will be thrilled to know he already served his 30 days and is back out on the street.
In other crime news, meth-user, Zachary Alexander was sentenced to 18 months in jail, drug treatment and 5 years probation for burglary, theft of a credit card, car theft and driving without a license (recklessly). He had recently gotten out of jail after a 5 year theft sentence.
Judge August after once again being conned by the defendant and his supporters, said
"The best way to protect society in the long run is to have Mr. Alexander go through long-term treatment and probation,"
Newsflash, Judge. Drug treatment does not work too well unless the user wants to change.
19 year old Bobby Tabilangan of Kaunakakai was released after 3 months of jail and Judge Bisson put him on 5 years probation for stealing a moped.
In contrast, pushover Judge August, allowed deferred sentencing and community service for Kihei's Valerie Lester who was part of a group that broke into a car and stole items including a credit card. Come on, Judge August - just because she told you she's getting drug treatment and going to college - you believed her?
Maui Crime Stoppers will pay a cash reward if you find Darrel A. Alexander, who is wanted for nine counts of first-degree sexual assault.He is African-American, 34 years old, 6 feet, 2 inches tall, weighing about 170 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. Call 242-6966 if you have any info on his whereabouts. And pray that Judge August doesn't get his case.
In the "There but the grace of God go we" crime section 6 people were sentenced for DUI.
Maui News photographer, Amanda Cowan took a cool photo of Scott Campbell near the D.T. Flemming life guard stand.
More publicity for EA Sports with a photo showing Trent Helle and Mark Few.
Our editor went to a Hawaii Employers Council meeting and brings back the news that neighbor islands are being hit harder by the recession than O'ahu, citing Maui's unemployment rate going from 2% to 10%. (Of course, those numbers do not reflect underemployment which is most likely double)
The speaker went on to say that Maui got hit because of the Maui Pine shutdown and that our future is "research and development of better crops." "Better" being a subjective and "research" being a code word for GMO and Monsanto using Maui as their isolated experiment station and us as their guinea pigs.
Audrey Rocha Reed lauds Virgilio "Leo" Agcolicol who resigned from the board of directors of the Cameron Center.
Albert Molitor writes in opposition to the Lahaina Halloween festivities.
Mike Kaufmann is advocating moving to organic and sustainable food growing instead of sugar. He doesn't say this, but we can all do our part by buying Maui grown food whenever it is offered.
On a related subject, Eloise Engman points out that the County's interpretation of ag products having to be sold in order for the grower to qualify for the lower property tax rate, ignores those who are growing their own food for consumption. Certainly we can craft a law which differentiates between the "gentleman farmer" who plants a few fruit trees and the family which is growing a substantial portion of their own food.
Wilson Branca calls A&B's Grant Chun on his viewpoint which somehow related the Superferry to asking for a lion's share of our water for HC&S and Wailuku Water,. Branka says the only thing that relates the two is that both HC&S and the Superferry want to bully their way around the State's environmental and water laws.
And (we have an emerging theme here) HC&S should put its people to work growing food and energy crops.
Just a comment on "energy crops". HC&S has been researching sugar cane use in ethanol. Cane has a much better energy balance than corn ethanol (which some claim actually uses as much oil as it replaces). So they are doing that part of your suggestion.
Froyam Edel and Lehua Cosma thank MECO for restoring power to Hana.
Alia Lim wants trained professional accountants and economists to balance our budget. Sorry, Alia, that isn't going to go over well with the rest of us who saw what the econmists at the Fed did to our economy. The lawmakers set priorities which is a far different task from bean counting.
Donald Estes disses the Republican (non)healthcare plan.
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