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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted at 12:06 p.m., Tuesday, January 7, 2003

Police Beat

Advertiser Staff

Two critically hurt in crashes

A motorist involved in a Pearl City crash early today and a bicyclist struck by a car last night near the Pali Golf Course entrance are in critical condition at The Queen's Medical Center.

Since early Sunday morning, five serious motor-vehicle accidents on O'ahu roadways have left one person dead and nine injured.

Speed and alcohol may have been contributing factors in today's 1:15 a.m. crash on Waimano Home Road, according to police. A 24-year-old woman driving a 1990 Lexus veered off the roadway and was ejected when the vehicle hit a rock wall. The woman was not wearing a seatbelt, investigators said.

A 32-year-old man, meanwhile, was critically injured while riding his bicycle on Kamehameha Highway at 7:30 last night. A car struck the bicyclist, who was in the right lane headed toward Pali Junction, police said.

A motorcyclist, 25, injured Sunday in a collision on the Joseph P. Leong Highway in Hale'iwa and a 59-year-old pedestrian, who was struck by a car yesterday in Wahiawa, remained in critical condition today at Queen's.


Convicted burglar charged in case

A man convicted three years ago on three counts of second-degree burglary was charged yesterday by police with first-degree burglary in connection with last Christmas Eve's break-in at a home on Elsie Lane in Pawa'a.

Davin Tatsuo Caluyo, who has no local address, is being held in lieu of $20,000 bail. Caluyo was arrested Sunday for another burglary not connected to the Elsie Lane break-in. He was charged, however, with the Christmas Eve case based on a backpack recovered at the scene that identified him as a suspect, police said.


Some of stolen money recovered

Honolulu police have recovered $709 of the $1,217 stolen in a robbery on Friday of Territorial Savings & Loan Association's McCully branch.

Apollo Leemont Thompson, 33, was charged yesterday in connection with the robbery.

Thompson was arrested at a Pawa'a-area hotel about three hours after the 10:45 a.m. robbery was reported. He was identified to a patrol officer, who was showing a bank surveillance photo of the suspect to businesses in the area. The money recovered in a backpack included "bait bills" that were given to the robber.