Arrests of Halawa corrections officers continue

A second corrections officer has been arrested at the Halawa Correctional Facility as investigations continue on Methamphetamine distribution and dealing at the prison.

According to officials, the officer has been identified as 45-year old Mark Samson Damas. He was taken into custody by FBI agents while on duty on Sunday morning. According to FBI special agent Tom Simon, Damas has been charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine at Halawa Corrections Facility. Damas is scheduled to be arraigned Monday in Federal Court.

Damas is the second officer to be arrested. James Kimo Sanders III was arrested two weeks ago in the prisons parking lot for similar charges.

Source: HawaiiNewsNow

UHM faculty discover new IDPs role

IDPs, interplanetary dust particles, were discovered to have the ability to deliver water and organics to the Earth and other terrestrial planets.

The discovery was made by researchers from UHMs School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of California-Berkeley.

It is a thrilling possibility that this influx of dust has acted as a continuous rainfall of little reaction vesselscontaining both the water and organics needed for the eventual origin of life on Earth and possibly Mars, Hope Ishii, new Associate Researcher inthe Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology (HIGP) at UH Mnoa's SOEST and co-author of the study said in a statement.

Researchers will next attempt to estimate water abundances delivered to Earth by IDPS.

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