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lfujimoto@mauinews.com WAILUKU — A man with three prior DUI convictions was ordered to pay a $3,000 fine and was placed on four years’ probation after he was arrested for driving into a wall while intoxicated last year. Jose Bermejo Barrera, 40, of Kihei was sentenced Wednesday after he pleaded no contest to habitually driving under the influence of an intoxicant. Bermejo Barrera, who works for a concrete business, was driving a company truck when he ran into the wall of a residence on South Kihei Road shortly after 9 p.m. March 13, 2020, said Deputy Prosecutor Carson Tani. He said Bermej...

The Maui News WAILUKU — A judge suggested a woman take a lesson from a famous extraterrestrial to reach out for help, as she was sentenced last month for taking a pair of running shoes from another woman’s car. Kayla Johnston, 27, agreed to return with her mother to California to attend a treatment program, as part of one year’s probation. Second Circuit Judge Rhonda Loo said Johnston was lucky to have support from her mother, who flew to Maui to help Johnston. “If you need help, E.T. phone home,” Loo said, referring to the science fiction movie. “K.J. phone mom.”

WAILUKU – A man who “drank too much” at his wife’s birthday party and was seen waving a rifle in the street was sentenced to a 10-day jail term as part

lfujimoto@mauinews.com WAILUKU — A Molokai man who said he was running a hunting guide business when police seized five rifles from a garage was sentenced Wednesday to a five-month jail term as part of four years’ probation. As a felon since 1995, Eugene Albino, 53, wasn’t allowed to possess firearms, 2nd Circuit Judge Rhonda Loo noted in imposing the sentence. “With those firearms being within your reach, you’re definitely breaking the law,” she told Albino. “They should have been stored somewhere else. “Once you’re a felon, you’re a felon. You can’t erase it.” Albino...

lfujimoto@mauinews.com WAILUKU — A man who said he was at high risk of contracting COVID-19 at the Maui Community Correctional Center had his bail cut in half Tuesday. Marcus Ruggiero, 55, thanked the court after his bail was reduced from $415,000 to $200,000. He has pleaded not guilty to first-degree attempted murder for allegedly driving toward police officer Nichole Paclib as she was responding to a reckless driving call in Kula on Aug. 16. Appearing by videoconference from the Wailuku jail, Ruggiero said he was in quarantine because of eight positive COVID-19 cases reported at the jail....