Newswatch

By Star-Bulletin Staff

Tuesday, September 30, 1997

Stones tickets on sale
tomorrow to Sprint customers

Tickets for the Rolling Stones concert at the Aloha Stadium Jan. 23 will go on sale tomorrow morning at 6 a.m. for Sprint Hawaii customers.

Under a promotion, customers of the long-distance service will get first crack at 15,000 tickets if they call 1-888-FALL-TOUR.

Those who aren't Sprint customers but want to be should call 841-4144. After signing up, Sprint officials said, callers will get transferred to the tickets number.

Ticket hours are from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.

General sales of the remainder of the 35,000 tickets begin at 9 a.m. Oct. 10, said Tom Moffatt Productions, the local promoter.

Ticket sales had been postponed from their original time today because the seating reconfiguration for Aloha Stadium was still being worked out with Ticketmaster, the national ticket outlet.

Stolen-car crash
hurts 4 teen boys

Four boys were injured, one of them critically, early today after a stolen car being pursued by police flipped over on Kamehameha Highway outside Wahiawa, police said.

Two 15-year-olds were flown to Queen's Hospital. One of them, who was a back-seat passenger, is in critical condition. The other, who was the driver, is in fair condition.

Two other boys, 14 and 15, were taken into police custody at Wahiawa General Hospital after they were treated for injuries.

The accident occurred at 3:25 a.m at the Pineapple Variety Garden, near Dole Pineapple Plantation, where Kamehameha Highway and Kamananui and Kaukonahua roads meet.

A Mililani patrol officer was following the gray 1993 Nissan Maxima that was reported stolen from Pacific Nissan in Waipahu last night.

Officers from the North Shore and Wahiawa were converging on the car traveling on Kamananui toward the North Shore when it swerved through a stop sign at the Pineapple Variety Garden, hit an embankment in a pineapple field, and flipped over twice. Police said the car landed on its roof in the pineapple field.

"The car somersaulted two times, impacted the ground once and then twice and then tumbled into a dust cloud to its final resting," said Officer David Alices Jr., a traffic investigator.

Police were following the car at 45 to 50 mph, but skid marks from the boys' car indicated it was going faster, police said.

Arrest spurs recheck
of sex assault cases

Police renewed their investigation into earlier sexual-assault reports after the arrest of a man in two Saturday incidents in Mililani.

Detectives said they would stage identification lineups this week for previous victims who were approached while walking alone at night in Mililani. Police declined to provide numbers and details of previous cases, saying it could taint the progress of the investigation.

A state prison guard who was charged with nine counts in the most recent attacks was held last night at Oahu Community Correctional Center. Bail for James Allen Thompson, 36, of Whitmore Village, was set at $400,000.

Thompson was charged with kidnapping and raping a 14-year-old girl Saturday and with exposing himself to a 16-year-old girl two hours earlier.

Reports of sexual assaults in the Mililani community date back to January when a 14-year-old girl was forced into a car at gunpoint while walking on Lanikuhana Avenue. The attacker drove the girl to a pineapple field near Waipio and sexually assaulted her, police said.

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Police/Fire


By Star-Bulletin staff

9-year-old boy dies
after 25-foot fall

HILO -- A 9-year-old boy who fell into the sea from a 25-foot cliff at South Point on Saturday, apparently striking his head on rocks as he fell, died yesterday at Queen's Hospital, police said.

Identified as Keevan Nakao of Hilo, the boy had been rescued from the water by his grandfather.

Police ask for help
in Big Isle deaths

HILO -- Police are asking for the public's help in investigating three Big Island deaths:

Eric Shawn Pursley, 45, of no permanent address, whose decomposed body was found off Road 15 in Paradise Park subdivision July 21.

Nimfa Smyklo, 50, who was stabbed to death at her Nanawale Estates home July 9 or 10, and whose family is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to conviction of her killer.

Vernon Joseph Souza Jr., 31, of Omao, Kauai, whose partially burned body was found off Saddle Road on Sept. 30, 1994.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 961-2255 or CrimeStoppers at 961-8300.

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