Posted at 11:49 a.m., Thursday, October 7, 2004
Man accused of victimizing teen girl
By David Waite
Advertiser Staff Writer
Anton Myklebust, 26, made an initial appearance in District Court this morning and a preliminary hearing has been set for Monday. His bail has been set at $500,000.
Police Detective Gregory McCormick said in a statement filed yesterday in District Court that the girl told him she was walking in Downtown Honolulu when a delivery van pulled up and the driver asked for help finding School Street.
The girl got into the van and the driver, later identified as Myklebust, drove off telling the girl he was trying to find a bathroom, according to the detective's statement.
The van eventually came to a stop somewhere between Kaimuki and Hawai'i Kai and the driver demanded that the girl hand over her backpack. The girl refused but the driver hit her in the mouth and took the backpack and put it behind the driver's seat, according to the detective's statement.
It says that the driver then told the girl to go in the back of the van and pushed her to the floor with her faced pressed up against a plastic bag making it difficult for her to breathe.
The girl said the driver sexually assaulted her in the van, rifled through her backpack and found her bank card and made her tell him her personal identification number. She said the driver left the truck briefly and returned holding an unknown amount of cash.
She told the detective that the driver then moved the van to a lot behind a business on Kapi'olani Boulevard near Atkinson Drive, went into the business briefly, came back and made her turn around while he injected something into the vein in her right arm, which he later identified as "ice" or crystal methamphetamine.
The girl said the driver then headed for a boat harbor and after that, to Waikiki where he made her walk with him to a cash machine where he used her card to withdraw more money. She said the driver took her to a store and used the money to buy a watch before taking her to a bathroom in a Waikiki hotel where he again injected something into her arm.
The driver and the girl were walking on Kaiulani Avenue when she felt sick and began vomiting on the ground, according to the court statement. When the driver left her momentarily, a passerby noticed the girl and asked if she needed help. She went with the man to his store and called a friend to pick her up, according to the statement.
The girl said she went to the Sex Abuse Treatment Center at Kapiolani Medical Center and was later examined by an emergency room doctor who confirmed the presence of methamphetamine.
The girl later identified Myklebust via a photographic lineup as the person who assaulted her, according to the court statement.
Patrol officers found Myklebust about 5:30 a.m. sitting in front of a store on Kuhio Avenue near Nahua Street.
The officers converged on him and arrested him on four counts of first-degree sexual assault; six counts of third-degree sexual assault; two counts of kidnapping; and one count of second-degree robbery.
Reach David Waite at 525-7014 or dwaite@honoluluadvertiser.com.