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Soft on Crime: Kidnapper twice not arrested, he then kills victim
HNN: … Jason Cachuela, the suspected gunman in Friday’s fatal shooting near Pearlridge Center, did not have a criminal record.
But in the days before the killing, he repeatedly threatened suicide and victim Theresa Cachuela obtained a temporary restraining order against him for stalking her.
In the TRO statement, Theresa Cachuela described terrifying behavior that began on Dec. 6.
On that day, she wrote her estranged husband continued to “make threats of killing himself in front of me and my children. He took me alone to Waikiki and held a knife to his neck traumatizing me and scaring me.”
The next day he confronted her again at home and she called 911 and said police did a wellness check. (INSTEAD OF ARRESTING THE KIDNAPPER. HELLO?) The next morning, on Dec. 8, “Jason was already in the garage hiding under my car and when I saw him I ran in the house and my son ran down the road.”
That led to another call to police (AND AGAIN THE KIDNAPPER WAS NOT ARRESTED) and her decision to file the TRO, which was granted immediately. The TRO also mentions the suspect has firearms at his home in Waipahu.…
Attorney Michael Green represented Jason Cachuela (now you know what the problem was) …. The attorney said he never saw any sign (LIKE A KNIFEPOINT KIDNAPPING) that Cachuela would be violent….
(CLUE: Kidnapping is a felony. Arrest kidnappers instead of giving them useless TRO.)
KITV: Family of Theresa Cachuela said her death was preventable if TRO was taken more seriously
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CB: Deadly Shooting Spurs Calls For Stronger Protections For Domestic Violence Victims - Honolulu Civil Beat
read … Pearlridge murder victim filed TRO against alleged killer after terrifying encounters
Lahaina: Home Ownership is Key to Success
TG: … Kupua and her husband, both born and raised in Maui, spent most of their adult lives working two jobs each to keep up with rising rent and the costs of raising seven children. In 2017, they bought a homestead for less than $250,000, a fraction of Maui’s median home price, which now exceeds $1.2m.
Since becoming a homeowner, Kupua, 45, has earned a master’s in social work and secured a job as the chief programs director at Family Life Center, a homeless services organization. Her husband is now running his own waste-management business. “That’s the success of having your own home, investing in your dream and being able to make room for other things to come through,” she said.
Her experience also points to the failures of the program. Kupua says she was able to get her property only by bypassing the waitlist after a close friend from church sold it to her directly. Before then, her husband had been on the waitlist for 20 years. “If we waited on the list, we would have been waiting for a very long time,” she said….
In September, Enomoto presented to DHHL an emergency proposal to build 300 solar-powered homes on a Lahaina homestead community for displaced waitlist beneficiaries. But the department’s response was lukewarm, she said, because officials weren’t accustomed to beneficiary-driven initiatives. “They’re a gatekeeper and they’re obstructive,” she said, noting that the commission had accepted many proposals from non-Hawaiian beneficiaries.
Kali Watson, the director of DHHL, didn’t respond to a request for comment….
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