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Updated at 9:07 p.m., Sunday, January 21, 2007

Charges in Kahala carjacking

Advertiser Staff

By Rod Ohira

Advertiser Staff Writer

A 27-year-old Pearl City man has been charged in connection with Tuesday's robbery, carjacking and kidnapping in Kahala as well as a Jan. 8 home-invasion robbery in Kunia.

Christopher George Gallarde is being held in lieu of $500,000 total bail for both cases. Gallarde, a felon, was arrested at his family's residence on Kanihi Street at 1:25 p.m. Friday.

Gallarde is charged with three counts each of first-degree degree robbery and kidnapping, plus first-degree burglary, auto theft and unauthorized entry into a motor vehicle.

Also charged in connection with the Kahala case are Daniel Blaine Collins, 29; and Trevor A. Kerr, 27.

Collins is accused of two counts each of first-degree robbery and kidnapping. His bail is $250,000.

Collins is under investigation also for the Jan. 8 home-invasion robbery in which a 32-year-old man was robbed at gunpoint.

Police said Kerr was stripping a stolen Honda Civic when Specialized Services Division personnel and Crime Reduction Unit officers from Pearl City and East Honolulu came to Gallarde's residence.

Kerr was charged for the auto theft of the Honda, which had been reported stolen Friday in Pearl City, recovered by police and stolen again before it could be moved by the registered owner from a street near Gallarde's home.

Kerr's bail is $15,000.

"There was a lot of cooperation and footwork from SSD and CRU from different districts to resolve this without anyone getting hurt, and from the prosecutors office for getting charges," said Det. Gary Lahens, lead investigator of the Kahala case.