Solomon Ferris pleaded guity to second-degree escape yesterday and was sentenced to five years imprisonment after running out the front of Kaua‘i Comunity Correctional Center. Ferris, who bolted in the middle of the afternoon on January 14, was caught by
Solomon Ferris pleaded guity to second-degree escape yesterday and was sentenced to five years imprisonment after running out the front of Kaua‘i Comunity Correctional Center.
Ferris, who bolted in the middle of the afternoon on January 14, was caught by corrections officers moments later on the Wailua Golf Course driving range across Kuhio Highway, said First Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Richard Minatoya.
“There’s not much to say,” said Ferris’ attorney John Calma before sentencing. “Solomon Ferris had one impulse” and he followed it.
Ferris, 23, was sentenced in October to a five-year term for violating his probation on a 2001 terroristic threatening charge. The two sentences will run at the same time, called concurrently.
- In other Circuit Court news:
Bruce J. Medeiros pleaded guilty to burglary and weapons charges in two seperate incidents late last year.
Medeiros, 43, of Lawa‘i, agreed to plead guilty to the charges as the result of a plea deal with prosecutors.
In one case, Medeiros was charged with kidnapping, first-degree sexual assault, first-degree burglary, first-degree terroristic threatening, and fourth-degree criminal property damage after an assault on his ex-girlfriend. According to prosecutors, the November incident began when Medeiros went to his ex-girlfriend’s house. When she asked him to leave, they alledge, he refused and then inflicted injuries to the victim.
In the other case which ocurred December 8, Medeiros led officers on a low-speed chase which ended on a haul cane road, Minatoya said. When he surrendered, Minatoya added, he was found with a .22-caliber rifle.
He was originally charged with resisting the order to stop, of keeping a loaded firearm, and third-degree promotion of a detrimental drug. The rest of the charges were dropped when agreed to plead guilty to place to keep a loaded firearm.
He faces a maximum of forty years in jail when his is sentenced to the two class B felonies on April 12.
- Albert Bactad plead guilty to four counts of misdemeanor third-degree assault and one count of harassment after two seperate incidents over last summer.
Judge George M. Masuoka sentenced Bactad to 60 days for all the charges and $300 in fines and fees. He was also ordered to complete one year of probation.
According to Minatoya, Bactad punched and kicked a woman who was trying to get into his car.
In the other incident, Bactad and his wife were arguing at Kuhio’s nightclub in Wailua, Minatoya said.
When a person tried to intervene, Bactad shoved the woman twice, once putting her on the ground.
When the woman’s brother stepped in, Bactad punched him, Minatoya said. And, on the way out of the club, he punched a security guard in the head for good measure.
None of the victims suffered visible injuries, Minatoya added.
Tom Finnegan, staff writer, can be reached at 245-3681 (ext. 252)
