Updated at 6:02 p.m., Thursday, September 27, 2007
Ala Moana jewelry store robbery suspect arrested
Advertiser Staff
Charges are pending against a 42-year-old man in connection with the Sept. 15 armed robbery of Hallmark Jewelers at Ala Moana Center.Crime Reduction Unit officers from the Central Honolulu police district arrested the man yesterday at his Birch Street residence near Ala Moana Center at 4:45 p.m.
He was booked for first-degree robbery, third-degree promotion of a dangerous drug and possession of drug paraphernalia.
The man has 14 prior convictions between November 1989 and January 2006, according to Hawai'i Criminal Justice Data Center records.
A woman, 26, was arrested at the same address for first-degree hindering prosecution.
Police said the man was identified from surveillance tapes.
The 8 p.m. robbery was featured in a Honolulu CrimeStoppers bulletin last week.
According to police, the man displayed the butt of a handgun in his waist to a male employee, 42, and left the store with expensive items he had asked to see. The employee was ordered not to follow him.
Police declined comment when asked if the man is also a suspect in the Sept. 14 robbery of P.S. Jewelry & Collection at Ward Center.
