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Police investigate five robberies

Honolulu police are investigating five separate armed robberies reported over a 30-hour period from late Monday to today. In three of the five cases, the robbers had guns.

A drive-through clerk at the Jack in the Box restaurant at 2317 N. School St. was robbed today at gunpoint by a man who fled with an undisclosed amount of cash. The robbery was reported to police at 4:45 a.m.

There were three robberies yesterday.

The first occurred at 5:28 a.m. on Martha Street in Kapahulu when a 39-year-old woman was robbed of her backpack by two men wearing ski masks. One of the men was armed with a rifle, police said. The men were passengers in a car that pulled up next to the woman as she was walking to her car parked on the street.

About 4 1/2 hours later, a McCully man found a man hiding in the bathroom of his Makahiki Way home. The man fled with jewelry after hitting the resident on the arm with a golf club.

At 10:15 last night, the 52-year-old owner of Makiki Food Center was slashed on the arm with a knife after a man demanded money from her and she refused. The woman was treated for injuries at The Queen's Medical Center and released, police said.

On Monday at 11:50 p.m., two men were robbed in the parking lot of Luanani Valley Park in Mililani. Two men, one armed with a gun, fled with money and credit cards.

Blaze guts Maui food business

A fire today gutted a structure at 1234 Lower Main St. in Wailuku, where Tiki Take-Out foods was doing business. Maui police estimated damages from the 12:40 a.m. fire at $100,000 to the structure and $50,000 to contents.

Woman booked in alleged attack

A North Kohala woman was arrested yesterday for allegedly driving a sports utility vehicle at a man, causing him to fall and strike his head on the ground. The man died at 11:11 a.m. The woman, 32, was booked by police on suspicion of manslaughter.