I was not surprised to see the news that five people have been indicted in the mortgage fraud scheme on Maui that was cloaked in Hawaiian sovereignty theories and rhetoric. The defendents were associated with several Maui organizations, including the Hawaiiloa Foundation, Ko Hawaii Pae Aina, and The Registry. You can read the indictment here. [...]
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Kaaawa hasn’t had another reported burglary for nearly two weeks. The last identified by HPD was on May 10. Did heightened awareness in the community begin to serve as a deterrent? I don’t know. Meanwhile, a reader wrote: Last time our neighborhood in Kaneohe was burglarized we figured out who did it by going to [...]
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Did you notice the guest editorial by the city prosecutor’s office in yesterday’s Star-Advertiser? Headline: “The evil of domestic violence led to arrest of witness.” Unfortunately, it did little or nothing to burnish the prosecutor’s public image following their arrest of a crime victim who was required to post $5,000 bail while the suspect awaiting [...]
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We took the plunge this week and bought a safe. In some ways, I don’t like it at all. It’s reflects an admission that the routine security of everyday life is more fragile than we like to admit, and in our neighborhood has been disrupted by the recent string of break-ins. Not knowing anything about [...]
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What happens when you call the police to report a suspicious person trespassing in your yard and on your lanai who resembles the suspect in an earlier burglary of your house? Sometimes, it seems, not much at all. A woman whose home on Kaaawa Park Lane was burglarized two weeks ago reported seeing a suspicious [...]
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Just a few odds and ends for this Thursday morning. What’s really going on with ERS? A reader forwarded a recent Civil Beat story questioning the Employees Retirement System’s likelihood of hitting new, slightly lower investment goal of 7.75% annual returns going forward. It was published as the legislature was deciding on a bill to [...]
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I stopped over to visit with my mother yesterday morning. She didn’t get to make her planned Mother’s Day visit to Kaaawa because we were worried about flooding on the highway through Waikane. So she and my sister are now planning on coming out on Sunday to celebrate my mom’s 97th birthday. When I mentioned [...]
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After an unusual spike in visitors yesterday, I tracked back to a photo of the burglar’s backpack posted on IMGUR, which had been viewed over 235,000 times as of this morning, and the resulting 900+ comments on Reddit.com debating various theories of the tools and their uses. The comments are a strange mix of off [...]
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