HONOLULU — There was a half-empty bottle of vodka inside the pickup truck a suspected drunken driver plowed into a crowded Honolulu intersection, killing three people, according to a police statement filed in court Thursday.
HONOLULU — There was a half-empty bottle of vodka inside the pickup truck a suspected drunken driver plowed into a crowded Honolulu intersection, killing three people, according to a police statement filed in court Thursday.
Alins Sumang, charged with three counts of manslaughter, didn’t speak during a brief court appearance, where he stood handcuffed and surrounded by deputy sheriffs.
An officer responding to Monday evening’s crash near popular Ala Moana Beach Park found the bottle of Absolut vodka in the front passenger floorboard, according to a probable cause document.
Sumang, 27, was belligerent, spoke with slurred speech and cursed at emergency workers, the statement said.
