A silent-alarm system that features a microphone led to the capture of a suspect within three minutes of a Christmas Day break-in at an engineering firm's office on the 700 block of South King Street.

Police alerted to the break-in by Sonitrol of Hawaii security officials at 11:45 p.m. found a suspect hiding behind a desk inside the office.

Michael Ikeda, a 51-year-old homeless man, was charged yesterday with second-degree burglary and is being held in lieu of $11,000 bail.

Man sought in robbery, kidnap

Police are looking for a 37-year-old man wanted on a $100,000 arrest warrant stemming from a Thanksgiving Day armed robbery and kidnapping. Jay Young Kwon is also a suspect in the Dec. 6 armed robbery of a jewelry store on Ke'eaumoku Street in which $2,000 cash and $5,000 worth of jewelry were stolen, police said.

Police are seeking Jay Young Kwon in connection with a Thanksgiving Day armed robbery and kidnapping case. Crimestoppers photo • Honolulu Police Department

Police said Kwon should be considered armed and dangerous.

He also uses the names John Fujitani, Jay Kwon Kim, Sang Young Kwon and Sang Young. Kwon is 5 feet 7 and weighs 150 pounds. He has a burn scar on his right wrist, a dragon tattoo on his left arm and "Jay" on the back of his left arm.

Anyone with information can call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300 or *Crime of a cellular phone. Information can also be given directly to Detective Michael Ogawa at 529-3357.

Suspect in auto theft arrested

Wahiawa Crime Reduction Unit officers yesterday arrested an auto-theft suspect who had fled from police on Christmas Day by allegedly ramming a sergeant's car. The incident at Mililani Technology Park occurred at 6:47 p.m.

A 21-year-old woman is being held pending two auto theft and one first-degree criminal property damage charges.

Patrol officers were sent to the technology park on a report that a stolen car was being stripped. They found the stripped car and found the suspect in another stolen car in the park area.

The woman fled from a parking lot by ramming the unmarked police car, causing damage to the front end, police said. The sergeant was not injured.

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