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Hana man sentenced for breaking into police station

WAILUKU -- A Hana man has been ordered to perform 200 hours of community service as part of four years' probation after he was arrested for crawling through a window to enter the Hana police station and set off an alarm. "Most people want to break out of the police station," 2nd Circuit Judge Rhonda Loo said in sentencing Paul Kossman on Feb. 6. "I haven't heard of too many people who want to break into the police station." Kossman, 53, had pleaded no contest to second-degree burglary and rendering a false alarm. He was discovered inside at 1:30 a.m. Jan. 14, 2018, when an off-duty police officer went to the station and noticed an alarm was going off, said Deputy Prosecutor Jeffery Temas. He said the doors were locked but the bathroom windows weren't. Kossman was inebriated when he "made the poor decision to go through the bathroom windows and pull the alarm that was inside the station," Temas said. "I had no intent of burglarizing or taking anything at all," Kossman said in court. "It was just something that happened that shouldn't have." Judge Loo said Kossman was described as "highly intoxicated, aggressive and swearing." "Maybe it was out of character that particular day," Loo said. "Luckily for you, nothing was broken or stolen." Kossman reportedly was trying to make a report against his girlfriend. He is no longer with the woman, said Deputy Public Defender Ben Lowenthal. Loo said Kossman's behavior was the kind of "prank" that a 13-year-old might carry out. "You're old enough and mature enough to know better," she said. "You see a window open, you don't crawl through it. You see a bank vault open, you don't go in it." Kossman was given credit for 16 days he previously spent in jail. He was ordered to write a letter apologizing to Hana police.

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