Updated at 8:32 p.m., Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Suspect indicted in Ala Moana jewelry store robbery
Advertiser Staff
An O'ahu grand jury today charged a 42-year-old man with the Sept. 15 armed robbery of G. Ishihara & Son Inc., doing business as Hallmark Jewelers at Ala Moana Center.The first-degree robbery indictment canceled Aaron Charles McGuire's scheduled preliminary hearing today in District Court. McGuire, 42, was charged by prosecutors Friday and is being held in lieu of $100,000 bail at the O'ahu Community Correctional Center.
McGuire, who has 14 prior convictions, will be arraigned in Circuit Court after he is served with a bench warrant for today's indictment.
According to a police report filed in District Court, McGuire allegedly went into Hallmark Jewelers, tried on two Omega watches worth more than $20,000 before displaying the butt of a gun tucked at the waist of his pants and told the employee waiting on him, "I have a gun don't follow me."
McGuire left the jewelry store with the watches and was seen leaving Ala Moana Center on a black moped. McGuire was arrested four days later by police at his Birch Street apartment near Ala Moana Center.
