Posted at 12:35 p.m., Friday, July 28, 2006
Police Beat: Mother beaten for not providing drugs
Advertiser Staff
A 29-year-old Wahiawa man was arrested yesterday morning after he allegedly beat his mother with a walking stick for refusing to give him drugs.The mother was treated and released at Wahiawa General Hospital for multiple contusions to both arms, her legs and upper torso as well as a broken left arm, police said.
The mother, 44, told police she awoke about 7:10 a.m. to the sound of her son pounding on her bedroom door.
She told police she had wedged a walking stick against the door for added security, but her son kicked the door in and demanded drugs.
She told police that when she told him she didn't have any drugs, the son began to beat her with the walking stick. The woman said she finally managed to run to the next door apartment and call police, who arrived and arrested the son on suspicion of second-degree assault.
The walking stick recovered by police was about 4 feet long and 2 inches in diameter.
Convenience store robber sought
Police are looking for a man who robbed a Nanakuli convenience store about 7:50 p.m. last night.
A 29-year-old woman and 34-year-old man who work at the store told police the robber entered the store, demanded money from the cash register and pointed a gun at the cashier.
Police said the cashier complied with the demand and the robber was last seen running from the store with an undisclosed amount of money.
Tourists report purse snatching
A man and two teenagers were arrested yesterday after they allegedly snatched two purses from a group of tourists who were visiting a Kailua beach.
Two men, ages 24 and 26, and two women, ages 18 and 19, told police they were at the beach about 5:30 p.m. when two strangers approached, grabbed the two purses and ran to a getaway car driven by a third person.
Police said the two purses were found on the side of the road not far from the beach. Only cash appeared to be missing, police said.
A short time later, three suspects and the getaway car were located.
Because the money taken from the purses totaled more than $300, police arrested the trio on suspicion of second-degree theft.
Man allegedly threatens wife at gunpoint
A 55-year-old man was arrested in Waimanalo yesterday after he allegedly pressed the barrel of a stolen, .38-caliber revolver against his wife's head and threatened to kill her, police said.
Police, who had been called to the house in response to a domestic argument complaint, arrested the husband on suspicion of first-degree terroristic threatening and detaining stolen property.
