Narcotics police officers this morning raided a Kalihi home and arrested 11 people for various drug charges. Kalihi house raided for
4th time; 11 arrestedThis is the fourth time police have raided the home at 754 Gulick Ave., putting the trust company that owns the home in danger of losing it, said narcotics Lt. Morris Derego.
"We're in the process of maybe trying to forfeit the house," Derego said.
The home, which has no electricity and at times has no running water, is used by people to do or sell drugs, police said. Police raided the home in December of last year, in May of this year, last month and again today.
Police arrested three women and eight men. One man is held without bail because there was a warrant for his arrest in connection with a homicide.
Honolulu Liquor Commission investigators issued 77 citations for serving liquor to minors last year, half the 150 issued in the previous fiscal year. Citations for serving liquor
to minors down by halfOutgoing liquor law Administrator John Rybczyk is proud of the dwindling statistic. "It doesn't show slacking off in enforcement, it reflects how training has increased."
The commission staff, which regulates about 1,400 liquor-selling businesses on Oahu, was forced by new rules to go into the education business about the time Rybczyk was appointed five years ago.
Last year, 2,900 restaurant and bar managers and bartenders went through required server training, a crash course in the wide array of federal and state laws and commission rules for the tightly regulated industry. A chapter on how to sort out prospective underage drinkers by recognizing creative counterfeiting and altering of identification cards is a highlight of the course.
The requirement is likely to be extended to retail store managers in rule changes under consideration by the commission, said Rybczyk, who has shared the teaching chores and succeeded in getting a trainer position added to the office of 48 investigators, auditors and clerical staff.
Partnered with the teaching, which leaves liquor licensees without the option of using ignorance as a defense, is the current policy of the commission to levy a $1,000 fine for a first citation for selling to a minor.
Rybczyk, 59, is about to take his teaching expertise elsewhere. He will leave the commission staff today to become training officer with the state Department of Public Safety. Retired as a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force, he has master's and doctoral degrees in education and a master's in criminal justice.
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By Star-Bulletin staffPolice arrested a 17-year-old boy at Campbell High School yesterday for attacking two security guards. Campbell High student
arrested for biting guardShortly after noon, the security guards were breaking up a fight in front of the administration building when one of the students bit a guard, causing a puncture wound to the guard's left wrist.
The teen-ager tried to run away, but the other security guard caught him. The guard suffered several punches to his chest while he held the suspect.
Police arrested the teen for second-degree assault.
He was released pending investigation.
KEKAHA, Kauai -- A motorcyclist was killed last night and his passenger critically injured when their motorcycle struck a pickup truck that was turning left onto a dirt road from Kalanianaole Highway. Robert Valencia Jr., 37, of Kekaha, was pronounced dead at the scene. Motorcyclist, 37, killed
in collision with truckKimberly Clift, 36, of Kekaha was taken to Wilcox Hospital, where she remains in critical condition. The driver and passenger of the pickup truck were both juveniles. Police said both motorcyclists were wearing helmets.
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