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Man pleads not guilty to threatening cop with knife
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Posted on Apr 30 2019
A man who allegedly attempted to assault a police officer with a knife pleaded not guilty yesterday to all the charges.
Daniel Jake Kaipat, 26, offered a plea of not guilty through his lawyer, Office of the Public Defender’s Stephanie Boutsicaris, before Superior Court Presiding Judge Robert Naraja.
Kaipat is facing charges of assault with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery, resisting arrest, criminal mischief, and disturbing the peace.
Naraja ordered Kaipat to return to court for a status conference on June 4.
Kaipat allegedly swung a knife at a Department of Public Safety officer who was trying to disarm him last April 9.
On that day, police had responded to a disturbing-the-peace complaint at the Marine Beach in Kagman 3 at about 8:21am.
At the scene, police met with the callers, Kaipat’s brother and mother, Marciano Kaipat and Josepha Kaipat, who warned police that Kaipat had been inhaling butane fumes and had a knife.
Josepha Kaipat tried to convince her son to give her the knife but Kaipat allegedly refused and pointed the blade tip at her and threatened to stab and kill her.
Police then stepped in and allegedly tried several times to convince Kaipat to cooperate with them but he would not comply and drop the knife.
One of the officers then used pepper spray on Kaipat, who responded by swinging the knife at him. The officer managed to disarm Kaipat with his baton, while another officer restrained Kaipat and brought him to the Department of Corrections.
Marciano later told police that he and Kaipat got into an altercation about a guitar earlier that day and Kaipat used his head to hit Mariano’s head, choked him, and pushed him.
Kaipat remains in custody after he failed to post the cash bail of $10,000.
