Posted at 10:23 p.m., Saturday, December 29, 2007
Man charged in Christmas morning burglary
Advertiser Staff
A 37-year-old man who allegedly burglarized a Honolulu home on Christmas morning and was beaten with a bat by the home's owner is being held on $50,000 bail tonight.Police said the man was charged with burglary and terroristic threatening after being released from a hospital, where he was treated for his injuries suffered at the hands of the outraged homeowner.
The homeowner awoke about 11 a.m. on Christmas Day when he heard noises in his living room. Going to investigate, he found the burglar climbing through his louvered windows with a screwdriver in his hand.
When the burglar realized that the someone was home, he crawled back out through the windows and tried to flee, police said.
The homeowner, dressed only in his underwear, grabbed a baseball bat and chased the man, who was cornered a block away. When the burglar threatened the homeowner with the screwdriver, the homeowner retaliated by hitting the burglar with the bat, police said.
The homeowner was acting in self-defense and has not been charged in the case, police said.
Police served a $50,000 warrant from an unrelated case on the man while he was still in the hospital, and brought the new charges against him when he was released from the hospital yesterday.
