Police Beat
Bruce Asato • The Honolulu Advertiser
A 36-foot boat began its trip yesterday being towed by this pickup but wound up in the truck bed after an 8:30 a.m. collision on H-1 Freeway, eastbound, near the Waimalu on-ramp. Several cranes were sent to lift the boat off the truck.
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Same man robbed 3 banks, police say
Police believe a heavyset man who robbed the Kailua branch of Bank of Hawaii yesterday also may have been involved in bank robberies on Wednesday and Thursday.
SUSPECT
The man, weighing about 300 pounds, robbed the Bank of Hawaii at 636 Kailua Road at 1:15 p.m. yesterday.
The man entered the bank and passed a demand note to the teller. He was described as 30 to 35 years old, 5 feet 8 and 300 pounds. He had a tan complexion and short black hair.
Yesterday's robber resembles the person who robbed the Hawai'i National Bank Kaimuki branch on Wednesday and the American Savings Bank Kapi'olani Boulevard Kaheka branch on Thursday.
Anyone with information about this case may call Detective Derrick Kiyotoki at 529-3055 or anonymously at CrimeStoppers at 955-8300, or *CRIME on your cellular phone.
Man charged with concealing weapon
Police yesterday charged a 19-year-old man with being armed with a concealed .38-caliber handgun at a nightclub.
Fuatau Tagata, who recently moved here from California and has no permanent local address, is being held in lieu of $25,000 bail on the firearms offense. He was arrested early yesterday after employees at Gussie L'amour's nightclub at 3251 N. Nimitz Highway told a police officer working special duty that Tagata was carrying a gun in his jacket pocket.
Police said that during a struggle with the officer, Tagata pulled the gun from his jacket pocket but the weapon was wrestled away from him.
Boy charged as minor in assault
A 16-year-old boy was charged as a minor Thursday with first-degree sexual assault. The alleged 3:30 p.m. attack Oct. 4 on a
15-year-old girl at an 'Aiea business complex was reported to police on Wednesday when she told her school-based therapist about it.
The boy was charged yesterday morning and is being held at the Alder Street detention facility pending Family Court action.
Street incident leads to arrest
A 41-year-old man with no permanent local address was arrested Thursday in connection with an incident in which a woman's car was damaged and a police officer was pushed at 'A'ala and North Beretania streets.
The man was arrested at 9:35 p.m. on suspicion of first-degree criminal property damage and third-degree assault.
A 27-year-old woman told police the man was crossing the street when he suddenly jumped onto the hood of her car and smashed the windshield. A police officer, responding to the woman's call for help, arrested the man after allegedly being struck in the chest.
Police investigate 4-year-old's burns
Police are investigating how a 4-year-old Waipahu girl suffered second-degree burns on her hands and stomach. While being treated for the burns Tuesday, the child reportedly told ambulance personnel her mother's boyfriend caused the injuries.
There has been no arrest in the second-degree assault investigation. The case has been assigned to the child-abuse detail, which has not yet had an opportunity to interview the girl or her mother's 32-year-old boyfriend.
Boy struck by van; injury not serious
An 8-year-old boy escaped serious injury when he was struck by a van yesterday in Nanakuli. The male driver involved in the 11:14 a.m. incident on the 89-100 block of Pilila'au Avenue fled the scene but later surrendered to police at the Wai'anae station.
