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Posted at 11:37 a.m., Thursday, March 4, 2004

Police Beat

Advertiser Staff

Masked bandit robs Kalihi retail store

A man wearing a mask and carrying a knife robbed a Kalihi convenience store last night of an undisclosed amount of cash.

The robbery at a Shell station store at 2066 Dillingham Blvd. was reported at 10:15 p.m. No injuries were reported.

Pedestrian injured in a hit-and-run

A 42-year-old pedestrian was critically injured today when he was hit by a car on Ke'eaumoku Street.

The black Mercedes-Benz was driven away after hitting the pedestrian, police said.

Police later arrested a 21-year-old Makiki man. The pedestrian was taken to The Queen’s Medical Center with a broken hip and internal injuries. The Makiki man was arrested at 6:35 a.m., about 50 minutes after police were notified about the incident.

Witnesses said the injured man appeared intoxicated and was lying on the narrow two-lane roadway on the ewa side of an overpass from Cartwright Field when the car made a wide right turn from the basement garage of Matlock Hale at 1326 Ke'eaumoku St., hitting the man.

Work-furlough inmate on the lam

A 32-year-old man was declared an escapee yesterday when he failed to return to the Laumaka work furlough program.

Francis Kekona left the facility in Kalihi at 5 a.m. yesterday. He had been convicted of second-degree robbery and kidnapping, and sentenced to three years and six months in prison, Warden Francis Sequeira said.

Kekona was eligible for a parole hearing in June, Sequeira said.

Water main breaks in Pearl City

A Board of Water Supply crew today was repairing an eight-inch water main break early today at Kalauipo Place and Palamoi Street in Pearl City.

The break was reported at 4:30 a.m. and cut off water to five residential customers. Repair work was to continue through the day.