Oahu jail module undergoing bedbug treatment ADVERTISING Oahu jail module undergoing bedbug treatment HONOLULU (AP) — Officials are trying to prevent bedbugs from infesting an Oahu jail. The state Department of Public Safety says it is tenting a module at
Oahu jail module undergoing bedbug treatment
HONOLULU (AP) — Officials are trying to prevent bedbugs from infesting an Oahu jail.
The state Department of Public Safety says it is tenting a module at Oahu Community Correctional Center that houses work furlough inmates. The department says the inmates in the module are able to leave the facility for work, making it possible for them to bring back bedbugs.
Tenting began Thursday and will continue until Saturday. During that time the inmates will be relocated to the Laumaka Work Furlough Center.
Department Director Nolan Espinda says the warden is taking preventative measures to keep the situation from turning into an infestation.
Arizona Memorial visits suspended while dock safety studied
HONOLULU (AP) — The National Park Service is indefinitely suspending visits to the USS Arizona Memorial while engineers study a potential safety issue with its dock.
The park service said Thursday officials noticed bolts connecting the dock to the memorial were stressed.
Visitors may still board boats to the memorial and float past it. They will also be able to see battleship’s remnants. But they won’t be able to disembark the boats and walk on the memorial.
The Arizona Memorial is an open-air structure honoring the 1,177 sailors and Marines killed when their battleship was bombed by Japanese planes on Dec. 7, 1941. The memorial sits above the sunken hull of the vessel in Pearl Harbor.
Visitors ride boats to the memorial from a visitors center on shore.
6 month jail, $92K restitution for Kauai domestic abuse
LIHUE, Kauai (AP) — A Kauai man must serve six months in jail and pay $92,000 restitution for assaulting his girlfriend and her mother.
The county Office of the Prosecuting Attorney announced Kaeden Palmeira’s sentence in a news release Thursday.
The release says the girlfriend was holding their daughter during the assault last year.
Prosecutors say he became violent when the women went to pick up the child from a party he took her to at Kikiaola Small Boat Harbor.
The restitution amount reflects the mother’s medical bills for injuries from the assault.
Prosecuting Attorney Justin Kollar says Palmeira must begin paying the restitution within 60 days of getting out of jail.
