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Posted at 11:08 a.m., Wednesday, July 2, 2003

Police Beat

Advertiser Staff

Carl Merseburgh, a security officer for Victoria Ward Limited, reaches from a manhole to hand Honolulu Police Officer Alex Mendez a knife used in a terroristic threatening case. At left is Ward security officer Blaine Sauer. Both security officers chased the suspect, a 56-year-old homeless man, from the Tesoro gas station on Ward Avenue to Cooke Street, where the weapon was dropped into a storm drain. The suspect was arrested on Cooke Street at 3:10 p.m., about an hour after he allegedly threatened two men with a knife.

Gregory Yamamoto • The Honolulu Advertiser

Jogger hurt in robbery

A male jogger was struck with an object today during a robbery in Kailua.

Police said the injured man was taken to a hospital. The attack occurred between 4:30 and 5:30 a.m.

Arson blamed in 'Aiea High fire

A fire that damaged 'Aiea High School's administration building today was intentionally set, according to Honolulu Fire Department spokesman Capt. Kenison Tejada.

An "ignitable liquid" was used to start the fire, which was reported at 3:11 a.m., Tejada said.

Damage was estimated at $15,000 to the building and $3,000 to the contents of one office. The fire was extinguished at 3:18 a.m.

Man arrested in bank heist

A 34-year-old McCully man was arrested yesterday on suspicion of robbing American Security Bank's Kaheka branch at 1600 Kapi'olani Blvd.

The man was captured by a plainclothes police officer assisted by three citizens.

Pair arrested in beating

Police yesterday arrested two men, ages 24 and 22, at separate Kalihi residences on suspicion that they beat a man on April 21 outside a Kokea Street bar in Kapalama. Both men were booked for attempted second-degree murder.

A witness identified the suspects to police. The older man was arrested at his Kalihi Street home at 7:10 a.m. while the second man was arrested at a Linapuni Street home at 8:25 a.m.

The two men allegedly mugged a 51-year-old man, who suffered two stab wounds, a fractured jaw and critical injuries to his throat and chest.

Man charged in attacks on two

John G. Duh Jr., 42, was charged yesterday on one count each of second- and third-degree assault and auto theft. He is being held in lieu of $47,000 bail.

Duh is accused of attacking two women, including his 57-year-old girlfriend, on separate dates at Tracks Beach near Kahe Point. The second-degree assault charge stems from Duh allegedly throwing a "football-size" rock on June 4 at his girlfriend, causing her to fracture four bones in her lower back.

The third-degree assault charge alleges that Duh punched a woman, 54, at Tracks Beach last July 3. The woman was treated for a bruised jaw, police said.

Police seeking sex offender

A convicted sex offender wanted by the Pierce County Sheriff's Department and South Tacoma police in Washington is believed to be on O'ahu, possibly in Waimanalo.

Johnnie Gerard Brown, also known as Johnnie Gerrard and Johnnie Gerald, is wanted for second-degree child rape, incest in the first degree, two counts of domestic violence and violating his probation for using a minor in transacting a drug delivery.

Anyone with information about Brown can call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300 or *CRIME by cellular phone.