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WAILUKU A California man arrested in an operation targeting online sexual predators was allowed to return home while his case is pending, after a $300,000 bench warrant was rescinded last month.
Ryan Fu, 28, was ordered to surrender his passport to the prosecutor’s office within a week of returning to California. He also was ordered to appear by videoconference for his pretrial conference June 28 in 2nd Circuit Court.
As a “geeky kind of guy” described by his attorney, “you should be able to figure it out,” Judge Rhonda Loo told Fu.
He was among seven men arrested March 12 to 14 in “Operation Keiki Shield 7,” which was run by police working with state and federal law enforcement officers.
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Bautista
WAILUKU For a jealous attack that caused his wife to suffer fractured ribs and a collapsed lung, a Kahului man was sentenced Wednesday to prison terms totaling 15 years.
“These offenses are so serious,” 2nd Circuit Judge Rhonda Loo said in ordering consecutive sentencing for Rommel Bautista. “You could have killed your wife.
“There was no part of your wife’s body that was untouched. She complained of pain to almost every single part of her body from head to toe head, neck, chest, ears, throat, legs and the list goes on and on.”
Bautista, 41, had pleaded no contest to second-degree assault, first-degree terroristic threatening and felony abuse of a family member. In exchange for his pleas, the prosecution dismissed four other charges, including second-degree attempted murder.