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Posted at 11:49 a.m., Wednesday, May 14, 2003

Police Beat

Advertiser Staff

Boy, 6, arrested in assault case

Police on Monday arrested a 6-year-old boy on suspicion that he sexually assaulted another boy in the restroom of a Leeward O'ahu school.

The boy was questioned on Monday and released pending further investigation.

The case is the second sexual-assault complaint at a school involving a child under age 10 investigated by police this month. On May 6, an 8-year-old boy was arrested after he was accused of dragging a girl into a restroom and assaulting her.

The cases are examples of awareness and improved reporting methods, police said. Police have included Child Protective Services in their investigations.

Man charged in '01 hit-and-run

A 23-year-old man has been charged with negligent homicide in connection with a September 2001 hit-and-run collision in Mililani that killed a bicyclist.

Manuel Elias Jaime was re-arrested and charged yesterday, said Jim Fulton of the Honolulu prosecuting attorney's office.

The bicyclist, 35, was riding a bicycle on Kamehameha Highway near Kipapa Street at 12:30 a.m. when she was struck by a speeding car. The suspect was located about 20 minutes later.

Police book teen suspect

A 14-year-old boy identified by Navy investigators as the person who started a fire Sunday that damaged a ground-floor unit at Iroquois Point Housing has been turned over to Honolulu police. The boy was booked yesterday for first-degree criminal property damage and released pending further investigation.

Police took the case because the federal court system does not handle juvenile cases.

Tips sought on armed robberies

Police are seeking help with armed robberies last night in Waipahu and Waikiki and also information about a man responsible for two April 29 robberies in Makiki.

Yesterday's robberies occurred at the International Market Place and Papa John's Pizza at 94-1021 Waipahu St. A knife was used in both robberies.

In the Waikiki robbery, a man with an 8-inch knife confronted a 17-year-old boy and a man, 20, both from Kaua'i, in a restroom at the marketplace at 6:45 p.m. and stole an undisclosed amount of cash from them. In the 11:45 p.m. Waipahu robbery, a man threatened two female employees with a small knife and fled with money from the cash register. There does not appear to be a connection between the two cases.

The man suspected in the April 29 Makiki robberies, stole cash from a convenience store at Ke'eaumoku and South Beretania at 9:45 p.m. A grocery store was robbed five minutes later by the same man, who slashed the storeowner on the arm when she refused his demand for cash.

Anyone with information can call CrimeStoppers at 955-8300 or *CRIME on a cellular phone.