WAILUKU (AP) — A Maui security guard says she was shielding her face from blows when a homeless man who had refused to leave a fast-food restaurant bit off her finger.
WAILUKU (AP) — A Maui security guard says she was shielding her face from blows when a homeless man who had refused to leave a fast-food restaurant bit off her finger.
Allied Universal Security Guard Janine Carroll testified Monday at a preliminary hearing that she was working at Maui Mall on Feb. 20 before the attack occurred, The Maui News reported.
“He bit right through the bone,” she said. “And they weren’t able to reattach it.”
After Carroll’s testimony, Judge Blaine Kobayashi ruled there was sufficient evidence to charge Alex Hand with assault.
He is being held in lieu of $20,000 bail and is scheduled to be arraigned March 7.
Carroll said she asked Hand to leave the Kahului Wendy’s multiple times before the altercation that ended with her losing the top portion of her left ring finger. Wendy’s workers had called security because Hand had his cellphone plugged in to an outlet and was refusing to leave. Workers said he was intoxicated at the time of the incident.
Carroll said Hand was agitated when she asked him to leave. She attempted to push him out the door but Hand resisted, pulling her hair and hitting her. She said she put her hands up and Hand bit her finger. He ultimately ran away after biting her.
Carroll was taken to Maui Memorial Medical Center, where two staples were put in her finger. She identified the defendant to police after he was cited for trespassing at Queen Kaahumanu Center two days after the initial incident.