Shark off Maui bites swimmer ADVERTISING Shark off Maui bites swimmer HONOLULU (AP) — Maui officials say a 61-year-old man was taken to a hospital after telling them he had been bitten by a shark. Officials say firefighters responded Wednesday
Shark off Maui bites swimmer
HONOLULU (AP) — Maui officials say a 61-year-old man was taken to a hospital after telling them he had been bitten by a shark.
Officials say firefighters responded Wednesday to a youth center, where they found the man outside with a wounded foot.
He told them he was swimming about 200 yards offshore when he was bitten on his left foot by a gray shark between 6- and 8-feet long.
Officials say the man swam to shore and walked to the center. He had as many as six cuts on his foot.
Responders provided first aid and the man was taken to Maui Memorial Medical Center.
Man threatened plane, feds say
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal criminal complaint says a passenger on a flight this week from London to Los Angeles threatened to kill flight attendants and blow up the plane.
The FBI says 20-year-old Kevin Lee Mosele of Kihei, Maui, was charged Tuesday with interfering with a flight crew. He could get 20 years in federal prison if convicted.
According to the complaint, Mosele told investigator’s he’d had several drinks in London before boarding the plane. It says he became agitated on the plane, spitting water on the crew and saying he’d kill them, then saying he was “going to set off a bomb.”
The FBI says he had to be restrained and was arrested when the plane landed Monday for a layover in Los Angeles. It had been headed to Hawaii. Mosele is free on a $10,000 bond.
$1M settlement
in fatal crash
LIHUE, Kauai (AP) — A $1.1 million settlement has been reached in a wrongful death lawsuit involving the death of a 26-year-old pedestrian.
The settlement came in a civil lawsuit against Robert Wayne Yount, 83, and the civil case will be dismissed on Wednesday.
Attorneys for both sides, along with Yount’s insurer, State Farm, agreed to the terms of the settlement.
The Kauai Police Department reported that on March 16, 2013, Yount was driving an SUV when he allegedly hit Jill Garnett of Waimea as she walked along the shoulder of Kaumualii Highway.
Yount also faces criminal charges, including first-degree negligent homicide, in Garnett’s death.
However, in March, he was found unfit to proceed to stand trial, and he is in custody at the Hawaii State Hospital.
Among other charges Yount faces is an attempted murder charge for firing in the direction of police officers who were attempting to serve him with a criminal indictment in the Garnett case.
The civil lawsuit was filed by Garnett’s estate, represented by her mother and two brothers.
Garnett had lived in Hawaii for six years by the time of her death.
