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The Honolulu Advertiser
Updated at 7:38 p.m., Thursday, April 3, 2008

Thieves hit four ATMs in Central Oahu

Advertiser Staff

Police today are investigating an overnight crime spree involving thefts from two automated teller machines and a pool hall robbery.

An undisclosed amount cash was stolen from ATM locations in Waipi'o, Pearl City and Waimalu while another ATM was broken into Tuesday night at Aiea Shopping Plaza .

The Waimalu case at Aiea Cue is being investigated as a robbery because three masked men forced occupants into another room before breaking into an ATM and change machine.

The robbery at Aiea Cue, located on the second floor of a building at 98-064 Kamehameha Hwy., was reported at 2:15 a.m. No one was injured.

At about 4:15 a.m. today, cash was stolen from another ATM at Pearl City Business Plaza, 803 Kamehameha Hwy.

A second-floor entry door and ATM machine were both pried open, police said.

An ATM near Big City Diner at the Gentry Waipio Shopping Center was also hit around midnight.

Police suspect Tuesday night's ATM break-in at Aiea Shopping Plaza on Kauhale Road is connected the overnight cases.

The ATMs involved are owned by a credit union and company in Halawa and not by major banks.

Police are also investing if there's any connection between yesterday's home-invasion robbery on Dillingham Boulevard in Kalihi in which a safe was stolen and today's cases.

Police had made no arrests as of early this evening.