Honolulu Star-Bulletin from Honolulu, Hawaii • 4

Star-Bulletin A-4 Wednesday. November 13. 1991 POLICE 1 fit "i I I in hi-- 1 Tl 1 -ft r-frf By Kin Igt, Star -Bulletin Lighten up: Fred DeWilde sits high above the city recently, gazing at buildings and roadways shimmering in the dark. He had to perch atop his car to see above the overgrown weeds at Tantalus Lookout. Bar fined $10,000 for drugs By Mary Adamski Star-Bulletin A Kapiolani Boulevard strip bar was fined $10,000 after undercover policemen told of buying cocaine and a methamphetamine compound known as "ecstasy" from dancers and others in the bar.

But the Honolulu Liquor mission levied only a $1 fine on prostitution charge against anoth- er club in the area. The token fine, was not a sign that commissioners; are softening in their stand against' illicit sex in the bars. They already had closed Club; Red Fox, also known as Club My! House, at 825 Keeaumoku St. for; other prostitution charges. David Fong, attorney for owner! Hwa Ja Mun, pleaded no contest to charges that the licensee allowed! an employee to offer sex for expose her breasts, fondle the gen-! itals of a male customer and solicit a drink in a July 30 encounter with an undercover officer.

The fine! was $1 on each count. The drug charges against Yun! Hee Im, owner of Club Femme Nu; at 1673 Kapiolani stemmed! from a police investigation there; in May 1990. Vice officers described buying; cocaine and methylenedioxy-methamphetamine, known as "ec-! stasy." at a commission hearing Oct. 29. The owner was charged! with 11 counts of failing to sup-; press illegal conduct in her possession and drug sales.

Im's attorney, Richard Perkins and deputy corporation counse Wilfred Tangonan later worker, out a plea agreement in which In pleaded no contest to five count! of drug sales, and all other charge: were dropped. Perkins said the offenders had all been removed from jobs at the club. I The penalties were the latest tJ result from a police vice investigaj tion into drugs and prostitution ill Oahu's hostess and strip clubs. Liquor law administrator Ran dal Yoshida began bringing club owners before the commission year ago without waiting for em ployees to be found guilty of the alleged crimes. The commission! has revoked or suspended licenses and levied fines against several, owners for allowing illegal behav ior in their premises.

Cases against several other clubs have been delayed by a Circuit Court ruling in August that id effect forced the Liquor Commis sion to hold off its administrative hearings until criminal drug and, prostitution charges have been heard in court. The owner of Club Femme Nu was charged with 11 counts of failing to suppress illegal conduct in her clubl cently left for a trip to the Far East and although inspectors have talked to him by telephone, he still is considered a fugitive. Sylva is responsible for more of the shortfall at the post office than any of the other workers, Austin said. Austin said the post office works like a bank, with the workers responsible for the daily balancing of the amount of cash and stamps under their control. Shortfalls are the responsibility of the individual worker, Austin said.

Unannounced inventories of cash and stamps are conducted once every four months, Austin said. Hilo man is charged in Fern Forest shooting HILO Police have charged Devon K. Kamahi, 19, of Hilo with two counts of attempted murder in connection with the shooting of two men in Fern Forest subdivision Monday. Kamahi, also known as Aina Ka-maka, also was charged with two felony firearms violations and four misdemeanor traffic violations. Police also started a revocation of bail case, since Kamahi was free on bail in an unrelated felony case.

Police said Kamahi and Clarence Kalani Smith, 30, who was killed in the incident, arrived at the scene together just before the mid-morning shooting. Kamahi fired two shots, which hit a 34-year-old man in the leg and buttocks. That man was standing with another man, 54, when Kamahi fired, but the older man was not injured, police said. The wounded man remains in satisfactory condition at Hilo Hospital. Police declined to say who fired the shot that killed Smith, who was convicted in 1986 of two felony firearms counts.

Kamahi is being held in the Hawaii Community Correctional Center in lieu of $101,250 bail, and no bail is being allowed for his revocation of bail case, police said. Police had no explanation on why the charges were for attempted murder when the case involved a death. Police charge husband with threatening pair Police have charged Kyung Soo Son, 35, of Nuuanu Avenue with two firearms violations for alleged threats against his estranged wife and her boyfriend. Son allegedly used a handgun yesterday and Monday to threaten his wife and her new boyfriend at her home and workplace. Son and his wife have been separated for six months.

Police charged him with keeping a loaded firearm in an illegal place and being an alien possessing a firearm. His bail is $70,000. Sacred Falls hiker suffers back injuries Marine Lance Cpl. Jason Shuck, 20, is in satisfactory condition at Tripler Army Hospital today. He was taken to Tripler at about 10 a.m.

yesterday after becoming lost and suffering back injuries while hiking near Sacred Falls. From staff and wire reports Police checking out suspected death car Police evidence technicians today are checking a car that was found parked downtown for indications that it may have been involved in the death Sunday of a motorcyclist on the H-l. The car was found about 2 p.m. yesterday. Technicians are studying debris found attached to its underside.

Isle forgery 'ace' to be subject on TV show Master forger Todd Mueller, whose list of scams in Hawaii ranges from cashing fake checks to falsifying court documents, will be the featured subject of an NBC-TV "Unsolved Mysteries" episode. Mueller, 24, has been at large since June 22, when he escaped from the prison ward of Cook County Hospital in Chicago. The producers of "Unsolved Mysteries" are in Hawaii to film a segment on Mueller, who was convicted in Hawaii of first-degree theft in August 1986. In August 1990, Mueller again was arrested, accused of cashing phony checks made out to the Bank of Iowa. There is no Bank of Iowa, and even though the location of the branch was listed as Boise which is in Idaho he managed to cash the checks.

Mueller also is suspected of using a forged seal of a notary public and forging the signature of Circuit Court Judge Marie Milks to get inmate Roy Harstock released from the Oahu Community Correctional Center in December 1990. Harstock, convicted of robbery and drug charges, and Mueller were arrested in Chicago in January 1991 for trying to cash stolen checks. Harstock was cleared for extradition and returned to Hawaii. Mueller, who fought extradition, escaped before the paperwork for his return could be completed. Mueller is also suspected of withdrawing money from a fraudulent bank account with stolen and altered business checks in Hawaii.

NBC-TV has not yet announced when the Mueller segment will be televised. $5,000 is missing at Lahaina post office LAHAINA More than $5,000 was reported missing from a U.S. Post Office branch after a gambling raid last week, but there is no proof the missing funds are related to the gambling operation, officials said. Postal inspector Gary Austin said an investigation into the $5,500 missing from the office's $92,793 inventory of stamps and cash continues. Five postal workers and a 71-year-old Lahaina man were charged with gambling on football games at the post office.

Sachio Komatsu, 71, and postal worker Lincoln Maielua, 52, are accused of operating the betting ring; the other four postal workers are accused of gambling. All have been placed on administrative leave with pay, pending court proceedings. Austin said a warrant also was issued for the arrest of post office manager Frank Sylva, but he re away from long-range comprehensive planning, Crone said. He called for enlarging that department's staff to strengthen its long-range planning role. Benjamin Lee, director of the Department of General Planning, said that if the two departments were combined for greater efficiency, their separate functions should remain the same as now.

Donald Clegg, director of the Department of Land Utilization, said the separation brought about by earlier Charter amendments has always been a phony one. The notion that big thinkers and small thinkers should be apart from the other sounds good but is really "shibai" in practice, he said. The Charter Commission of the early 1970s was very idealistic but not all that practical, the outspoken Clegg declared. "I hope when this Charter is passed in 1992 that we're not sitting around here in 2001 trying to figure out what that means." Consolidating the two departments would provide a better, more efficient planning process with more continuity, Clegg said. Clegg also told the panel its most important decision is whether to continue the "strong mayor" con-' cept in Honolulu or give more power to the City Council.

If it wants to stay the mayor's hand further, then it should opt for a city managercouncil format, Clegg said. "I have watched this conflict and been affected by this conflict over the past 20 years. I am not referring only to the areas of planning rand zoning with regard to this issue. I am referring to all areas in the Charter where potential conflict can exist." Clegg also advocated making it tougher for property owners to gain variances. George Ono, representing the Downtown Neighborhood Board, wanted the Council to have the sole power for granting variances from existing zoning, not the land utilization director.

Lava flow routs last 5 holdouts By Rod Thompson Big Island correspondent HILO A major lava flow is moving through the Royal Gardens subdivision, forcing the evacuation of the last five people living in the isolated area, Civil Defense chief Harry Kim says. Kim put special emphasis on the word "major" in describing the flow, saying it is the largest in Royal Gardens since 1986. Various parts of the mile-wide, 3-mile-long subdivision have been overrun by lava flows that began in 1983. The character of the eruption has changed since new vents opened about three miles above Royal Gardens on Friday, Kim said. The series of fissures, extending a mile between Puu Oo cinder cone and Kupaianaha vent, all have closed except for one main vent, he said.

That vent seems to be producing most of the lava in the area and activity at Kupaianaha seems to be slowing, he said. Lava that had been ponding around the new vents started flowing toward Royal Gardens Monday and entered the subdivision yesterday. There are 23 homes are still standing, but only three were occupied. Kim said The five people living in the three houses were advised to leave yesterday. With roads cut off by earlier flows, the only way in or out is by helicopter or on foot.

Charter unit hears views on planning Star-Bulletin staff Residents disagree on how the city should be planning land use and whether to combine its two planning departments into one. Testimony before the city Charter Commission yesterday focused on whether to make one big department out of the departments of General Planning and Land Utilization, which were one department until the early 1970s. Astrid Monson, chairwoman of the League of Women Voters' planning and zoning committee, said there's too much delay resulting from planning and that the two departments get bogged down. Monson said the league opposed a merger of the two departments. "The problem is not that they're separate but that they go on doing functions they did before they were separate," she said.

The league also called for review of development plans every three years rather than annually as now required. After the Department of General Planning reviews a batch of development plan amendments, it should be able to spend the next two years on longer-range planning, Monson said. Jo Paul Rognstad, an architect, said the old system worked better and recommended the departments be reunited with a single planning director in charge. But Robert Crone, another architect, said combining the two departments would be a mistake. "I don't think we do comprehensive planning," Crone said.

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