A 58-year-old woman who works at the store told police three men came in about 5 p.m. and began to shoplift beer. The clerk said she tried to stop the men but they physically overpowered her and ran to a car driven by a fourth man.

An officer from the Pearl City police district crime reduction unit saw the men running from the store and followed the car. Police ordered the car to pull over a few miles a way. The driver complied but when he stopped, two of the robbery suspects got out and ran to avoid capture.

The two men who remained in the car were detained and later arrested for suspicion of second-degree robbery.

The store clerk, who received minor injuries when she tried to stop the men, was treated at the scene and released by city paramedics.

Woman forced to the ground, robbed

Police are investigating an incident reported by a 25-year-old woman who said two men forced her to the ground and robbed her while she sat at a city bus stop in Kane'ohe last night.

The woman told police she was waiting for a bus between 8:30 and 9 p.m. near the corner of Kamehameha Highway and Duncan Drive when two men approached her from behind and threw her down.

One of the men tore a gold chain and crucifix from her neck, the woman said. She said she continued to struggle with the assailants until they were scared off by a passing vehicle.

Police said the woman took herself to The Queen's Medical Center, where police were called and opened a kidnapping and second-degree robbery investigation.

Public's help sought for finding bank robber

Police, the FBI and the CrimeStoppers program are asking for the public's help in finding a man who robbed the American Savings Bank at 1109 Dillingham Blvd. about 9 a.m. yesterday.

Police said the robber walked up to a teller and handed her a note demanding money. No weapon was seen. The teller, 30, placed a stack of currency on the counter and the robber took it before he ran out of the bank in an unknown direction.

The robber was described as being in his 50s or 60s, about 5-foot-4, 140 to about 160 pounds, with a medium build and gray hair.

The robber wore a baseball cap, possibly with a Sony open logo on it, a gray T-shirt, long blue denim pants and slippers.

Anyone with information is asked to call the CrimeStopper hotline at 955-8300 or *Crime on cellular telephones.

Woman abducted, sexually assaulted

Police are checking on a report filed by a 22-year-old woman who said two men pulled her into a car early yesterday morning in Waikiki and sexually assaulted her.

The victim told police she did not know the men who abducted her about 3 a.m.

She was taken to Kapiolani Medical Center for a sexual-assault examination.

Police classified the case as a kidnapping and first-degree sexual assault.