EDWARDSVILLE – A tenant at the Hillcrest Apartments in Northbrook has filed a negligence lawsuit against her landlords after she slipped in an icy parking lot.
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WAILUKU – A Wailuku man was taken into custody to complete a six-month jail term for illegally restraining a woman who said she was beaten and threatened while he held her captive in his truck.
Jordan Ware, 34, also was placed on four years’ probation when he was sentenced Thursday.
Originally charged with kidnapping, he had pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of first-degree unlawful imprisonment of the woman on July 22, 2016. Charges of felony abuse, abuse and interfering with reporting of an emergency were dismissed in exchange for his plea.
Speaking in court Thursday, the woman said, “I had to put in a lot of work to heal from the torture that Jordan Ware put me through.”
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WAILUKU With attorneys and the judge acknowledging a Kahului man’s progress in drug treatment and life, he was placed on four years’ probation Thursday for burglary and drug convictions.
David Mollena Jr., 30, was working and participating in drug treatment on Maui, after the pandemic made it difficult to obtain treatment off island, said his attorney, Elizabeth Cuccia.
“When he is sober, he is a contributing member of society,” she said.
Deputy Prosecutor Shelly Miyashiro also cited Mollena’s progress and the victims’ desire for him to get treatment, in recommending that he be sentenced to probation and given credit for more than 18 months he spent in jail.
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