If you live in Honolulu, you most likely saw news reports about an apparent road rage incident in which a 31-year old man was shot and killed.
The suspect in the shooting was identified as 72-year old retired firefighter and Aiea resident, Darryl Freeman.
It didn’t take any special digging to turn up this short item published in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin back on December 22, 1999.
It seems Freeman served prison time for both state and federal crimes back in the 1990s.
Question: What ever happened to Darryl Freeman, the former Waiau battalion fire chief sentenced in 1993 to state and federal prison terms involving convictions for theft, firearms violations, tax evasion, mail fraud and racketeering to defraud insurance companies with false claims of stolen cars? Why was his house not confiscated as his sentencing indicated?
Answer: Freeman was paroled on his state term April 24, 1996, and was released from his federal sentence on Oct. 4 this year.
“He is under supervision with us and serving a term of supervised release,” said Betty Taylor, chief U.S. probation officer, District of Hawaii.
“At the time of sentencing the court didn’t order any confiscation. He was ordered to make restitution, which we’re in the process of having him make. There was no order at the time of sentencing to confiscate his house.”
On June 7, 1993, U.S. District Judge Harold Fong ordered Freeman to pay some $216,000 in restitution to insurance companies, and Freeman began serving his prison terms a short time later.
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Good work Ian!
and there was another fun headline in the Star-Bulletin that day:
Newspapers
withdraw their
motion to dismiss suit
When all three fluff TV stations give better reporting than the daily newspaper, you know things are bad.
The man he shot was young but had an impressive history of violent crime.
Yes, to Jim, I wonder if that TRO violation was against the mother of his daughters?
Freeman’s lawyer is talking about a self-defense case. Sounds like there’s potentially more to this case than what meets the eye. Stay tuned.
The Star-Advertiser reported on Tuesday that Freeman may have avoided paying most of the restitution while keeping his house. “Court documents said [do documents speak?] he still owed $191,000 in 2010, and in 2013 his liability to pay expired.”
KHON2 today:
Several witnesses reported to police that they saw Pahio standing outside the driver’s door of a van on Moanalua Road, near the Aiea Heights Drive intersection.
One witness said Pahio appeared to be yelling at the van’s driver, who police later identified as Freeman. According to court documents, the witness saw Pahio “making hand motions while talking” but “did not see Pahio’s hand enter the van through the van’s driver window,” though another witness claimed to see Pahio “throwing punches into the van.”
A witness said shortly thereafter a black handgun “was pointed out the window and it shot the man once in the head.”
The van was allegedly stopped at a red light and, the witness “believed that the driver of the van then drove away after the traffic signal light turned green.”
According to court documents, police traced the van’s license number and driver description back to Freeman. Officers were dispatched to his home, spotted the van in the driveway, and handcuffed Freeman. He was identified by several witnesses and placed under arrest without incident.
One officer noted, “He did not have any visible injuries, nor did he complain of any.”
Freeman’s attorney, Rustam Barbee, previously told us he expects to build a case around self-defense.
Christopher Deedy & Kollin Elderts redux. As one of Eldert’s relatives lamented: “How come he [Deedy] couldn’t take his lickins?”