Scott Kelly Lizama was sentenced Thursday to five years imprisonment for first-degree terroristic threatening. He was convicted of threatening a 51-year-old Kapa’a woman, his neighbor, with a baseball bat. Lizama, 37, of Kapa’a, was also sentenced to five years for
Scott Kelly Lizama was sentenced Thursday to five years imprisonment for first-degree terroristic threatening.
He was convicted of threatening a 51-year-old Kapa’a woman, his neighbor, with a baseball bat.
Lizama, 37, of Kapa’a, was also sentenced to five years for unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia. Both terms will be served concurrently.
“His friends were the subjects of a drug raid, and he so happened to be there…As fate would have it, he was charged with the most serious charges,” said Public Defender James Itamura.
Based upon a pre-sentence investigation, Circuit Court Judge Trudy Senda decided not to accept the defense’s motion for deferred acceptance of the guilty plea, which would have expunged the offense from Lizama’s criminal record.
“He’s never taken responsibility for what he’s done, and he’s a 37-year-old man,” she said.
Lizama agreed to plead guilty for possession of drug paraphernalia and terroristic threatening; prosecutors dropped charges for resisting arrest and other felony drug charges associated with crystal methamphetamine (ice).
Orlando Boykin, 23, of Lihu’e, was sentenced in a case involving second-degree theft and computer fraud. He stole an ATM card from his foster mom and opened her mail to get her PIN code, in order to withdraw money from an ATM, according to first deputy prosecuting attorney Craig DeCosta. Boykin agreed to plead guilty on second-degree theft of money in exchange for prosecutors dropping the charge of computer fraud.
Judge Clifford Nakea sentenced Boykin to five years imprisonment, with a mandatory minimum sentence of one year and eight months.
B.J. Duarte, 21, of Kekaha, was scheduled to be sentenced for first-degree robbery Thursday, but did not show up. Circuit Court Judge Nakea issued a bench warrant.
On Dec. 28, 2001, Duarte entered Teresa’s Variety & Video Rentals in Kekaha, at closing time. Wielding a knife, he stole the cash register, which contained $2,000, and fled on foot.
Because Duarte is 21, he may be eligible for a “youthful offender” sentence at the judge’s discretion, said DeCosta. If Judge Nakea decides to give Duarte this alternative, Duarte’s sentence would be reduced to eight years instead of 20 (the regular mandatory term).
