Updated at 1:38 p.m., Friday, August 3, 2007
Armed robber breaks up card game in Kalihi
Advertiser Staff
Police are looking for a 23-year-old man who allegedly was involved in the gunpoint robbery of nine men in a Kalihi car port last night.At about 10:30 p.m., nine friends were in a Kalihi car port playing cards and rolling dice when two men, ages 23 and 25, walked up to them, police said.
One of the men pulled out a gun and ordered the group to empty their wallets, police said.
While the gunman allegedly kept his pistol trained on the men, his partner went to each of them, collecting cash and a cell phone.
Four of the men had nothing on them, police said, and the man with the gun threatened to shoot them if they didn't produce something. Then, while still pointing the gun, the robber and his accomplice got into a car and drove off, police said.
The gunman fired several shots into the air as they fled, police said.
Patrol officers responding to the scene were able to identify one of the assailants, although it is not clear if he was the gunman, police said.
The 25-year-old man was later apprehended, and arrested on suspicion of five counts of first-degree robbery and four counts of terroristic threatening. The other suspect remains at large.
