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Date: 12-07-2022
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United States of America v. David Akui-Cabanilla, III
Case Number: 1:22-cr-00011
Judge: Leslie E. Kobayashi
Court: United States District Court for the District of Hawaii (Honolulu County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office
Defendant's Attorney:
David Akui-Cabanilla, III, age 37, assaulted two corrections officers engaged in their official duties. In preparation for his attacks, the defendant fashioned two makeshift weapons. The first weapon was a long tube sock tied to the loop of a locked metal padlock. The second weapon was a shiv formed from a razor blade with a piece of bedsheet tied around one end, simulating a handle. Akui-Cabanilla beat Correctional Officer D.M. unconscious with the locked metal padlock. He took the officer’s Bureau of Prisons-issued keys and his pepper spray in an apparent escape attempt. When other correctional officers, including Officer D.C., confronted Akui-Cabanilla, he sprayed Officer D.C. and other officers in the face with pepper spray. He then punched Officer D.C. in the head knocking him down to the ground.
Multiple officers suffered injuries requiring medical attention and ongoing physical therapy treatment. As part of this sentence, Judge Kobayashi ordered Akui-Cabanilla to pay $24,508.92 in restitution for medical bills paid by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs.
“While we have recently prosecuted a few correctional officers for violating the civil rights of an inmate, other correctional officers are lawfully protecting our community from incarcerated inmates,” said U.S. Attorney Clare E. Connors. “This was nothing short of a vicious, premeditated attack on several of those correctional officers, and such conduct warrants the additional imprisonment imposed.”
"Violence against law enforcement officers is absolutely unacceptable," said FBI Special Agent in Charge Steven Merrill. "The FBI takes this brutality very seriously and is committed to aggressively investigating such heinous crime."
This conviction is the result of an FBI investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mohammad Khatib is prosecuting the case.
Assault On A Federal Officer: 18 U.S.C. §§ 111(a)(1) and 111(b)
Assault On A Federal Officer: 18 U.S.C. §§ 111(a)(1) and 111(b)
Assault and Battery by Kent Morlan
Assault and Battery by Kent Morlan
Outcome: SENTENCE: IMPRISONMENT: EIGHTY FOUR (84) MONTHS as to each of Counts ONE (1) and TWO (2) to run concurrently with each other, but consecutively to CR20-00018 LEK. SUPERVISED RELEASE: THREE (3) YEARS as o each of Counts ONE (1) and TWO (2), to run concurrently with each other and with CR20-00018 LEK. RESTITUTION: Total of $24,508.92 due to DOL-OWCP: $7,073.25 (payments made for victim D.M), $8,579.02 (payments made for victim D.C.), $8,856.65 (payments made for victim B.C.). SPECIAL ASSESSMENT: $200.00. Mittimus Forthwith.
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