By Brandon Masuoka
Advertiser Staff Writer
Man fatally injured at gas station
A 24-year-old man was fatally injured yesterday at about 8 a.m. at the Aloha gas station on Harding Avenue in Kaimuki.
The man was filling gas into his Honda Civic when a Ford Taurus, driven by a 82-year-old man, pulled up ahead and suddenly reversed, striking him. He died at the Queen’s Medical Center.
Man held in bank robbery
A 33-year-old man was arrested yesterday in the Feb. 7 robbery of a Mililani bank, police said.
Members of the Wahiawa Crime Reduction Unit and the FBI arrested Darrick Palencio on a federal warrant at about 9:30 a.m. yesterday at his Mililani residence. Palencio was scheduled to appear in Federal Court this afternoon.
Palencio is accused of robbing the Mililani Branch of American Savings Bank, 95-221 Kipapa Drive, on Feb. 7 at 2:45 p.m., police said.
Police said the robber entered the bank, waited in line and passed a note to the teller that stated he was armed and demanded money.
Pedestrian dies in accident
A man died Wednesday night after he was struck by a car as he crossed Kamehameha Highway at P¬p¬kea Road.
Police yesterday said the man’s identity is not certain, but he is believed to have been in his 50s and homeless.
The accident occurred at about 9 p.m., said police.
The victim, this year’s fifth O‘ahu traffic fatality, was struck by a 1998 Honda Civic driven by a 30-year-old Sunset Beach woman.
The man was not in a crosswalk when he was struck. He was taken in critical condition to Kahuku Hospital, where he died.
Woman sought in credit card theft
Police were searching for a 31-year-old woman yesterday in connection with the theft of Pauoa woman’s credit cards.
Police said Pisa Marvell Tuvale frequents Kalihi and Papak¯lea and has a 1994 white Mazda MPV, registered to her with license plates "TUVALE."
A woman posed as an employee of the Gas Co., claiming to be investigating a gas line leak in a Pauoa neighborhood. The impostor told the elderly woman that she needed to inspect her home.
The impostor is believed to have stolen the woman’s credit cards.
Suspect arrested in detaining wife
Police have arrested a 31-year-old man in connection with allegations that threatened his wife with knives and held her hostage in a Kunia home Wednesday night.
Police arrested the man on suspicion of first-degree terroristic threatening and kidnapping.
The incident was reported to have occurred at a Kupuohi Street home.
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