2009-08-14 Police Commission Minutes

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Hawaii County Police Commission Regular Session Minutes August 14, 2009 Page 6 then called Officer Fukuda for assistance. Neither he nor his partner gave the party permission to be there. Normally there is a key lock there, but it was missing. The other party claimed there was a combination lock. He did not speak to the people who were trespassing. He went down when they were served a trespass notice. JOHN "SLUGGY" SILVA (Complaint HPC 09 -30) stated that he works on the property. People usually check with him if they are going to be there. He puts out no trespassing signs and people take them down. He told the boss nobody was supposed to be there. They have a regular lock. Somebody replaced it with a combination lock, so he took it off. The combination lock didn't belong to the company. The boss is concerned about liability. People go there without permission. If somebody gets hurt, they could get sued. RAYLYN IOPA (Complaint HPC 09 -28) stated that the school called that her son was Tased twice by the police. She wasn't there. She just wants to know what happened. There was a fight earlier that morning with her younger son. Her son was on modified school, and was leaving and some one said there was a fight. When Officer Tingle got there, the fight was over. The officer sent a survey to the students asking if they thought her son deserved the Taser. She wants to know why he was Tased in the back. A teacher told her he was walking away when he was Tased, but the Acting Principal told them not to make a statement. DANIEL IOPA (Complaint HPC 09 -28) stated that on the day of the incident, he was leaving the campus when he got a call from another student that there was a fight. He went there. He was Tased when he was walking away and again when he was on the ground. He didn't hear anything to stop. There were all kinds of ruckus. He got near the fight but was stopped by Mrs. Edeta. She saw him raging. He was near the fight but not in the fight. Chad Hao told him to calm down. He was still angry and did not calm down. He didn't hear Officer Tingle tell him to calm down. There was all kinds of riots going on. He doesn't know why he was Tased. He had already calmed down. OFFICER ROBERT PULE (Complaint HPC 09 -29) stated that he was called to a terroristic call complaint from Ms. Bufil's former employer. The person told the receptionist that she was going to die. The person named her daughter and husband. HMSA Healthpass got Ms. Bufil's number from Hawaiian Tel. HMSA told him that Ms. Bufil left the company with bad relations. He called the phone number, it was Mrs. Bufil. He explained the reason for the call. She came down to the station by herself. He asked to look at her phone, but the phone number was erased. She told him it was her son that made the call, and he's bipolar. She said she would get him. He thought she was putting the blame on her son. All he did was greet the boy and ask for an advice of rights form when he heard a loud sound, and he fell. He didn't even get to interview the son. He felt that she was blaming her son, so he had to separate the son and mom. He went up to the window for an advice of rights form, and the boy fell down. The HMSA employee told him that she suspected Bufil or her boyfriend made the call. Hawaiian Tel told him the call came from Bufil's phone. It was his case, but after she made the complaint, he was taken off the case. He spoke to the investigating officer and was told that the boy confessed to making the call. He wanted to separate the boy and the mother to ask if his mom was making him take the