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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Tuesday, October 9, 2001

Police Beat

Advertiser Staff

Man charged in nightclub death

Police Sunday charged a 21-year-old Mililani man in connection with a fatal assault on a nightclub doorman Saturday near Ala Moana Center.

Tony Kwak was charged with second-degree murder and his bail was set at $125,000, police said.

Robert Cullen, 50, died Saturday after he allegedly was kicked while trying to break up a fight at the Venus Night Club, according to a court record. Police said Cullen worked as a doorman at the nightclub at 1349 Kapi'olani Blvd.


Ship employees raise suspicions

Authorities detained six Indian cruise ship employees after they allegedly were seen by a security guard taking photographs around Hawaiian Electric Co.'s downtown power plant yesterday.

Police said a security officer saw what he thought were Middle Eastern men taking photographs around the power plant around midnight.

Police were called and the six men were found to be employees of a cruise ship that recently had docked. Authorities from the Honolulu Police Department's Criminal Investigation Division, FBI and the Immigration and Naturalization Service responded. An investigation found nothing suspicious, police said. The men were not arrested.


Woman robbed at Wal-Mart

Police yesterday were searching for a man who robbed a 53-year-old woman at gunpoint in the parking lot of the Mililani Wal-Mart.

Police said the robbery happened at 95-550 Lanikuhana Ave. at 12:01 a.m. as the woman was walking to her car.

The robber approached the woman and demanded her purse. The man fled in a late-model red sedan driven by another man.


Police still get tips on missing man

Police are still receiving tips on an 80-year-old man suffering from Alzheimer's, who has been missing since June 23.

"After three months, we're still getting calls but 95 percent of them turn out to be look-a-likes," Officer Phil Camero of the Honolulu Police Department's Missing Persons Detail said of the search for Masayuki Kubo. "The other 5 percent are times the officer gets there and the person is gone.

"At this point, the only way he's surviving is if someone is physically taking care of his needs and for whatever reason, that person has not been forthcoming."

Volunteer groups, however, are still willing to search. About 70 people, including the Iolani School varsity football team, conducted a major Saturday search last month concentrating on six areas — Downtown Honolulu, Kaka'ako, Waikiki and Kapi'olani Park, Ala Moana and Kaimuki, Camero said.

Anyone with information about Kubo is asked to call Camero at 529-3394.