Tag archive for Maui Police
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TONIGHT: Maui Police Hold Public Meeting At Wailuku Community Center
So who wants to talk to cops to their faces tonight about law enforcement in Wailuku? Show of hands? Seriously, this is your chance to ask about the most pertinent issues facing Wailuku today. Want
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MauiTime Publisher Tommy Russo Sues County of Maui Over April 2011 Dog The Bounty Incident
On April 8, MauiTime Publisher Thomas Russo filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against the County of Maui, Maui Police Chief Gary Yabuta and Maui Police Officer Nelson Johnson over an April 12,
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Talking Story With Maui Redevelopment Agency Members Katharine Popenuk and Bill Mitchell About The Changing Face of Wailuku Town
By Anthony Pignataro The Wailuku Redevelopment Area covers about 68 acres of Central Maui. Its approximate center is the Vineyard/Market Street intersection. Like many small towns in America, the area’s narrow streets and cramped storefronts
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MauiTime Publisher Thomas Russo Pleads Not Guilty In Operation Recon Filming Case
My apologies for not updating the case of MauiTime’s Publisher Thomas Russo–who was arrested on Nov. 20, 2012 while attempting to film two Maui Police Officers during Operation Recon–but nothing much has happened since
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This Friday, Jan. 25: Maui Redevelopment Agency To Discuss Proposed Iao Square, Which Will Eliminate Even More Wailuku Town Parking
The top, preeminent, number one most valued commodity in Wailuku Town has got to be parking spaces. There just aren’t enough of them to go around, and not enough residents and visitors use the
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Maui Police Says Carrying Signs In Martin Luther King, Jr. Parade ‘Prohibited’
Look carefully over the photo above. Taken in 1963, it shows marchers–including Martin Luther King, Jr. (front row, center) marching on Washington. They’re calling for an end to segregated schools, buses and hiring; and
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Paper: County of Maui Paid Wailuku Resident Jazel Mattos $40,000 Settlement For 2006 Excessive Force Taser Case
We hear so much the often-unfair charge that Maui trails the nation in this or that, it was almost refreshing this week to read that our fair county is leading the legal way in
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The US Supreme Court Says Photography Is Not A Crime Yet Maui Police Pfficer Rusty Lawson Still Arrested MauiTime Publisher Thomas Russo For Filming Operation Recon
On the morning of Tuesday, Nov. 20, two Maui police officers arrested Thomas Russo, MauiTime’s owner and publisher, while he was attempting to film them with his cellphone camera during “Operation Recon,” a massive
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Overzealous Hana Cop Should Cut Us Some Slack
To the Hana cop who wrote me a $35 parking ticket for “Facing Oncoming Traffic” ($35) on the short dead end street near the Hana Hotel Cottages. Really? Parking facing the wrong way on
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Scary Stat Concerning Police, Coercion and False Confessions
Heard something truly frightening during this morning’s Morning Edition show on NPR. It was a small but terrible statistic buried in a story about a brain-damaged man who’s been in prison 23 years and
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