POLICE BEAT
Armed robbery suspect arrested
Advertiser Staff
A 21-year-old Nu'uanu man was arrested yesterday on suspicion of using a gun to rob a Mo'ili'ili store and a Liliha pizza restaurant.
The man was booked on two counts of second-degree robbery and one count of auto theft. He remained in police custody last night pending charges.
The man is suspected of committing the Sept. 20 armed robbery of the Hawaiian Holy Smokes store in Mo'ili'ili. In that incident, police said a man pointed a handgun at a cashier and demanded money.
After receiving an undisclosed amount in cash, the man fled.
On Sept. 27, a man walked into the Pizza Hut restaurant on Kuakini Street, approached a cashier and removed a rifle from a duffel bag. The man demanded money, but fled after seeing a video surveillance camera, police said.
WAIMEA MAN WHO WAS SHOT CHARGED
LIHU'E, Kaua'i — A Waimea man shot by police Sept. 18 after he allegedly rammed a police car and brandished a knife and gun was arrested Wednesday on charges that include assaulting a police officer, reckless endangering and terroristic threatening.
Tavis Apo, 31, was arraigned yesterday after being released from medical care for the gunshot wound.
Police said Apo threatened police with the knife and gun outside the Lihu'e police headquarters on Ka'ana Street about 6:30 a.m. on Sept. 18. He rammed a police car that blocked his way out of the area and was accelerating to ram the car again, police said, when he was shot.
Apo was treated at Wilcox Hospital and transferred to The Queen's Medical Center. He was returned to Kaua'i to face charges.
TWO TEENS ARRESTED IN BUS INCIDENT
A man and a boy were arrested Wednesday after allegedly trying to take a cell phone from a 20-year-old man on a city bus traveling near Ala Moana Center.
The cell-phone owner told police he was approached by two male youths, an 18-year old and a 17-year-old, and that the younger one tried to take the phone, which was attached to his waist. At the same time, the older suspect pulled out what police described as an "obvious toy handgun" and demanded that the phone be turned over.
Police were called and arrested the two on suspicion of attempted second-degree theft.
The 18-year-old also was arrested on suspicion of violating a city ordinance that prohibits carrying a replica gun in public unless it is properly wrapped or in a suitable gun case.
MAN, 29, ACCUSED IN HOME BREAK-IN
A 29-year-old man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of multiple felony offenses after allegedly attempting to break into a former girlfriend's home.
A man went to the woman's home on 10th Avenue in Kaimuki and broke several glass louvers in an attempt to break into the home, police said.
Officers were sent to the scene and found the suspect a few blocks away. He was arrested on suspicion of burglary and abuse of a household member.
