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Robber holds up hotel in Waikiki

The Aston Waikiki Joy Hotel was robbed yesterday at 6:18 a.m. by a man who told the desk clerk he had a gun. No weapon was seen, and the man fled with $455 in cash.

The robber was in his 40s, about 6 feet tall and weighing 200 pounds. He wore a blue T-shirt, jeans and a cap.

Transformer work closes traffic lane

The makai lane on a section of Diamond Head Road between Alohea Avenue and Trousseau Street was closed to traffic today as state Hazard Evaluation & Emergency Response officials removed an electrical transformer containing polychlorinated biphenyls that fell from a utility pole struck by a car Wednesday night. The pole also was replaced.

Weekend crash victim identified

The medical examinerâs office identified a 41-year-old woman killed in a car crash last weekend on Kamehameha Highway near Helemano Plantation as Carmen Morales of Waikiki. Morales was found dead Saturday in her car in a ditch off the roadway. An autopsy determined she died of multiple injuries.