The Maui News
WAILUKU – A man who spent about three months in jail after being arrested for violating travel quarantine rules was released Wednesday after he was fined $150.
The fine was imposed after Dillon Rogers, 36, pleaded no contest to a park violation.
“I don’t know about the laws in your neighborhood, Mister Rogers,” 2nd Circuit Judge Rhonda Loo said in sentencing Rogers. “But in my neighborhood, you follow the law.”
Rogers was arrested Dec. 7 when he arrived at Kahului Airport from the Mainland without an approved pre-travel negative COVID-19 test, said Deputy Prosecutor Carson Tani.
When Rogers was asked where he was staying, he didn’t have an address where he could quarantine for the required 10 days, Tani said.
The Maui News
WAILUKU Although a woman said her time in the Maui Community Correctional Center had “corrected me so much,” a judge found that didn’t appear to be the case and sentenced the defendant to a one-year jail term for trying to assault a man.
Kathy Koebberling, 57, also was placed on four years’ probation Wednesday.
She had pleaded no contest to attempted second-degree assault and two counts of fourth-degree criminal property damage.
Deputy Prosecutor Carson Tani said a man and his girlfriend were behind their vehicle in Wailea on May 11 when Koebberling approached them and started threatening the man. After he told her to leave, she tried to flatten the car’s tire with a sickle, Tani said.
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WAILUKU Bail was increased to $75,000 Wednesday for a 23-year-old Kihei man charged in a sexual assault case from 2018.
Second Circuit Judge Rhonda Loo ordered the increase in bail in response to a prosecution’s motion to have Abiola Oluwatimilehin held without bail or to have bail increased in the case. He is charged with second- and third-degree sexual assault for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman while she was sleeping at her residence.
Deputy Prosecutor J.W. Hupp said in the motion that he sought the increase in bail as Oluwatimilehin had posted a $21,000 bail bond in the 2018 case and had been out on bond when he was arrested in March for allegedly soliciting sex online from someone posing as a 13-year-old girl.
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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.