HONOLULU
HONOLULU – U.S. prosecutors worry a 99-year-old woman central to establishing the motive behind corruption-related charges against her granddaughter won’t be available to testify at trial.
Prosecutors say Florence Puana needs to be deposed by April 26 because her health is deteriorating.
Puana is the grandmother of Katherine Kealoha, a former deputy prosecutor who is married to ex-Honolulu police chief Louis Kealoha. The Kealohas are accused of defrauding banks and relatives to fund their lavish lifestyle.
Prosecutors say Katherine Kealoha stole money from her grandmother and an uncle. Prosecutors say when they threatened to expose the fraud, Kealoha tried to have her grandmother declared incapacitated and framed her uncle for a mailbox theft.
The Kealohas pleaded not guilty.
A judge is giving the Kealohas until Monday to respond to the deposition motion.
Source: Fox News National
HONOLULU – A suspected drunken driver police say plowed into a crowded Honolulu intersection and killed three pedestrians is pleading not guilty to manslaughter.
Alins Sumang was arraigned in court Tuesday via video from jail, where he’s being held on $1 million bail.
Trial is scheduled for April.
He’s charged with three counts of manslaughter in the deaths of Casimir Pokorny of Pennsylvania, Reino Ikeda of Japan and William Lau of Honolulu.
Police say the truck Sumang was driving last month veered across three lanes, climbed a traffic island, hit six pedestrians, and then crashed into another truck. Three people, including the driver of the second truck, were hospitalized, and one was treated and released.
Honolulu Police Chief Susan Ballard calls it one of Honolulu’s worst crashes.
Source: Fox News National
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