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Posted at 12:08 p.m., Monday, July 3, 2006

Police Beat: Store clerk arrested for stealing

Advertiser Staff

Police yesterday arrested a 27-year-old woman as a suspect in the theft of cash from a Wai'anae convenience store Friday afternoon.

The store's manager, 30, told police he discovered money missing from the store's safe and reviewed the tape from a surveillance system.

The manager told police the tape showed an employee taking the money and that he confronted her yesterday.

Police said the manager reported that the woman confessed to taking the money. She was arrested yesterday on suspicion of second-degree theft.

Kissing bandit? Man, 19, arrested after stealing a kiss

Police arrested a 19-year-old La'ie man yesterday for allegedly entering a neighbor's home and "stealing" a kiss.

Police said the man entered a neighbor's home through an unlocked front door, approached a 36-year-old woman who was sleeping on a sofa in the living room and began to kiss her.

A man who lives in the home entered the room and confronted the other man, who ran back to his home, police said.

Police were called to the home on Naniloa Loop and directed to a neighboring home where they arrested the youth on suspicion of first-degree burglary.

Elderly woman found in home dies, husband hospitalized

Police are investigating the death of an 84-year-old Honolulu woman and near death her 86-year-old husband.

They said the couple's yardman called police late last week to report he had not seen the woman or her husband for two days and was concerned about them.

Police went to the home and found the woman on the floor of the bathroom and her husband on the bedroom floor.

Both were suffering from dehydration and other medical problems and were conscious, but in bad shape, police said.

The woman was taken to Straub Clinic & Hospital where she died early Friday morning.

The husband was taken to The Queen's Medical Center, where he was listed in serious condition upon arriving there, police said.

They said nothing in the case suggests foul play.