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The Honolulu Advertiser

Updated at 11:26 a.m., Tuesday, October 17, 2006

POLICE BEAT
Robber throws glass bottle at clerk

Advertiser Staff

Police are looking for a man believed to be in his 20s who robbed a Kahalu'u store at about 1 p.m. yesterday.

A store cashier told police the man approached the checkout counter and demanded money.

The cashier said that when she was unable to open the cash register, the robber got angry and threw a glass bottle at her, which shattered on a wooden partition behind her.

The robber then grabbed the cash register off the counter and walked out of the store with it.

He was last seen in a car fleeing north-bound on Kamehameha Highway.

Husband alleges wife sexually assaulted him

Police have opened an investigation in response to a complaint filed by a 35-year-old Honolulu man who said he was sexually assault by his wife, 31, over the weekend.

The husband told police he was held against his will and sexually assaulted by his wife on Saturday as well as Sunday.

Dropped gun falls out of waistband, leads to arrest

A 29-year-old Waipahu man was arrested at a store in Wai'anae yesterday afternoon after a security guard reported seeing a gun fall out of the man's waistband.

Police said the man drove his car into the side of a store about 2:20 p.m. and the security guard went to investigate.

The guard told police he saw the gun fall onto the ground from the man's waistband and called 911.

Arriving officers confiscated the gun and arrested the man without incident on suspicion of carrying a firearm and ammunition in public.