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The Maui News WAILUKU – A man who spent about three months in jail after being arrested for violating travel quarantine rules was released Wednesday after he was fined $150. The fine was imposed after Dillon Rogers, 36, pleaded no contest to a park violation. “I don’t know about the laws in your neighborhood, Mister Rogers,” 2nd Circuit Judge Rhonda Loo said in sentencing Rogers. “But in my neighborhood, you follow the law.” Rogers was arrested Dec. 7 when he arrived at Kahului Airport from the Mainland without an approved pre-travel negative COVID-19 test, said Deputy Prosecutor Carson Tani. When Rogers was asked where he was staying, he didn’t have an address where he could quarantine for the required 10 days, Tani said. ....
The Maui News WAILUKU Although a woman said her time in the Maui Community Correctional Center had “corrected me so much,” a judge found that didn’t appear to be the case and sentenced the defendant to a one-year jail term for trying to assault a man. Kathy Koebberling, 57, also was placed on four years’ probation Wednesday. She had pleaded no contest to attempted second-degree assault and two counts of fourth-degree criminal property damage. Deputy Prosecutor Carson Tani said a man and his girlfriend were behind their vehicle in Wailea on May 11 when Koebberling approached them and started threatening the man. After he told her to leave, she tried to flatten the car’s tire with a sickle, Tani said. ....
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 Bermejo Barrera’s blood-alcohol level was measured at 0.122 percent, over the legal limit of 0.08 percent. ....
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 ....