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Pepper spray links two burglary cases
Pepper spray was used in a home burglary and store robbery Thursday night in East Honolulu and, in both cases, the getaway car was a light-colored Honda sedan.
Police believe the incidents are related. There may have been a third burglary case involving the same suspects early yesterday, but details were not available.
The first incident at a convenience store on the 2400 block of Date Street was reported at 9:30 p.m. Thursday. A woman, 47, told police that a young man trying to steal a bottle of liquor pointed a knife at her when she confronted him. Another employee, who had shut the front door, was hit with pepper spray.
The thief fled in a Honda sedan driven by another man.
A short time later, a 30-year-old 'Aina Haina woman was attacked with pepper spray by a man she found hiding in her closet. The man fled with her purse in a Honda sedan.
Thieves steal safe from Waialua office
Thieves broke into a business office on the 200 block of Goodale Avenue in Waialua sometime between 10 p.m. Thursday and 1:20 a.m. yesterday and stole a safe.
Patrol officers discovered the front door of the office opened and the interior ransacked. There have been no arrests.
Father charged in assault on son
Police yesterday charged Orden Manuel Ohry, 40, with two counts of second-degree assault for striking his 15-year-old son in the head with a chair.
The blow broke the plastic chair and cut the boy's ear, police said. Ohry is being held in lieu of $15,000 bail.
Police dispose of large firecracker
Honolulu Police Department bomb technicians disposed of a large firecracker discovered Thursday in a package outside the U.S. Post Office in Ka'a'awa.
Officials reported the object was 6-to-10 inches long and about 3 inches wide. The firecracker was not homemade, police said.
The post office was closed from 9:15 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. because of the threat.
Firefighters find missing woman
Big Island firefighters Thursday found a missing woman who suffers from Alzheimer's disease about a quarter-mile from her Kona Acres subdivision home.
Annette McWilliams, 86, had been missing for nearly 18 hours. She was spotted by a search helicopter at 1:49 p.m. in a thick brush area near her home. The woman was not injured.
