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The Honolulu Advertiser
Updated at 5:39 p.m., Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Body found at Yokohama Bay identified

Advertiser Staff

Hawaii news photo - The Honolulu Advertiser

Jermaine Michael Duckworth

Courtesy Hawai‘i Criminal Justice Data Center

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A man whose body was found on the rocks Thursday at Keawa'ula (Yokohama Bay) was identified today by the Honolulu medical examiner's office as Jermaine Michael Duckworth but autopsy findings into cause and manner of death are deferred.

Duckworth, 24, who has no known permanent local address, was arrested last Nov. 27 at One'ula Beach Park as a suspect in an early morning Ma'ili home-invasion robbery on Kula'aupuni Street. He was never charged in the case.

According to Hawai'i Criminal Justice Data Center records, Duckworth had convictions.

Police said four men wearing T-shirts emblazoned with a white "DEA" logo forced their way into the Ma'ili home at 1:48 a.m. and robbed six people at gunpoint of cash, jewelry and credit cards. The suspects fled in a black Chevy Blazer on Farrington Highway. Police confronted four occupants in the Blazer at One'ula Beach Park but arrested only Duckworth as three others fled.

On Jan. 3, Malufafo T. Vito, 29, was arrested at the O'ahu Community Correctional Center as a suspect in the Ma'ili case. Vito was at OCCC awaiting trial for an unrelated offense.

It is unknown if police have previously arrested the two other suspects, ages 30 and 25.