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WAILUKU Saying a defendant poses an “extreme danger to the community,” a deputy prosecutor asked Friday for bail to be increased to $2 million for a man charged with attempted murder for allegedly driving toward a police officer in Wailuku.
Kaipo Lapenia-Lau, 25, of Kahului was arrested Tuesday morning after a police pursuit that ended at a residence off Kahekili Highway in Waihee.
Lapenia-Lau appeared by videoconference from the courthouse cellblock for his initial appearance Friday in Wailuku District Court.
He is charged with first-degree attempted murder, first-degree attempted assault on a law enforcement officer, two counts of first-degree resisting an order to stop a motor vehicle and first-degree assault on a law enforcement officer.
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WAILUKU A woman is facing firearms and threatening charges after she allegedly pointed a handgun at another woman at a residence in Makawao.
At her arraignment last week in 2nd Circuit Court, Melanie Sauer, 49, pleaded not guilty to charges of keeping a pistol in an improper place, first-degree terroristic threatening, third-degree assault and keeping ammunition in an improper place.
She was arrested Feb. 2 after callers reported a woman on the road with a firearm, according to police.
During a preliminary hearing Feb. 8 in Wailuku District Court, Kula resident Tiare Forgerson testified she was waiting in her car for her acupuncture appointment at the residence on Kaupea Street when she saw Sauer in front of the car with a phone, then walk around to the back of the car.
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WAILUKU A Wailuku man was stopped for driving without a license before police seized quantities of drugs in a search of his vehicle last week, a police officer testified Wednesday.
Robert Cramer, 37, was charged with three counts of first-degree promotion of a dangerous drug, four counts of possessing drug paraphernalia, second-degree promotion of a detrimental drug, driving while his license was suspended or revoked and driving without a license.
At a preliminary hearing in Wailuku District Court, Crime Reduction Unit officer Adam Akau said police stopped Cramer in a pickup truck at 1:25 p.m. Feb. 18 near the park-and-ride at Kuihelani Highway and Puunene Avenue.
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WAILUKU A woman said she ripped open a portion of a locked bedroom door to escape after being twice strangled by her former boyfriend at her residence on Lanai last week.
“I couldn’t breathe. I was gasping for air,” Marcelina Perez said while recounting how Alika Kaniho-Batoon applied pressure on her neck while he was on top of her on a bed. “When I did get air, I wanted to leave and he would not let me out of the door.”
Perez, 41, testified at a preliminary hearing Tuesday in Lanai District Court, convening in Wailuku, for Kaniho-Batoon, 23, who is facing charges including attempted murder.