WAILUKU, Hawaii — It was a mistake to give a man a chance with probation, a Maui judge said in sentencing him to 30 years in prison for theft and burglaries. “I made a serious, truly terrible error in judgment by sentencing you to probation the last time you were here,” Cahill told him. In 2015, Cahill sentenced Amaral to probation for thefts. Amaral stole a 2017 Subaru Impreza valued at more than $41,000 from a car dealership, Cahill said. The more recent crimes happened less than a year after Amaral had been placed on probation, Deputy Prosecutor Emlyn Higa said.

Source: National Post January 06, 2019 15:56 UTC