Someone living on Hoi Road in Kapa’a called Kaua’i Police shortly after 9 o’clock Monday night and said they heard someone calling for help behind the houses on Hoi. The area where the cries were coming from is a pasture.
Someone living on Hoi Road in Kapa’a called Kaua’i Police shortly after 9
o’clock Monday night and said they heard someone calling for help behind the
houses on Hoi.
The area where the cries were coming from is a
pasture.
Police arrived and searched for almost three hours but found no
one.
Officers and Kaua’i Fire Department personnel went back out early
Tuesday morning. Within a couple of hours, a man was discovered lying in a
field near the Kapa’a bypass road. He had a broken ankle and had been outside
all night, according to county spokeswoman Beth Tokioka
He was treated at
the scene.
Authorities did not give a reason why the man, whose name was
not released, was in the field in the first place or how he became
injured.
Staff writer Dennis Wilken can be reached at 245-3681 (ext.
252) and dwilken@pulitzer.net
