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Updated at 2:15 p.m., Monday, January 29, 2007

Man pleads guilty in 2005 tourist carjacking

Advertiser Staff

A 37-year-old man pleaded guilty Monday morning to robbery in connection with the hijacking of a van with four tourists at Kahe Point Beach Park on Jan. 18, 2005.

Ricky K. Kenui pleaded guilty to second-degree robbery and driving the van without permission as part of a plea agreement. Kenui also pleaded guilty to an unrelated crime of breaking into a truck in Wahiawa four days later.

Kenui agreed to serve a maximum 10-year term for those crimes when he is sentenced by Circuit Judge Karl Sakamoto in May.

In exchange, city prosecutors agreed to drop a first-degree robbery charge, which carries a maximum 20-year term.

Police were looking for a second man involved in the robbery and Kenui provided police with a name, but police were not able to obtain any evidence to corroborate that the other man was involved, according to prosecutors.